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W HAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? The Other Side APRU. 23, 1991 VouThu: XVIT, ISSUE 4
4 EDITOR'S DESK • THE E DITORS • lnrroducing postmodernism. - 5 REFLECTIONS FROM OUR READERS· Lacking solutions and seein' red. -C> 6 UNFURUNG OF HOPE • WILLIAM H ICKEY KRAMER • The AIDS Quilt. ~ ~ 8 TROUBLED WATERS • SARA S HEPPERD • Tension in Mead creates ~ ...... a animosity between students and adminsrration ...... 10 NO PARKING ANYTJME • SARA S HEPPERD • The Mead parking problem. v --Q_ '+- 11 BOB DYLAN: THE BOOTLEG YEARS • BILL FoREMAN • Album review. I C> 12 GARY SNYDER & ALLEN GINSBERG • STEPHAN DIGNAN • Inten iews. N ...... un s:::: 16 THE PENDULUM SWINGS • KAREN STEEN • Student Activism in the 90's. T ~ -c::::s 18 DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION AND THE PSU • CATHY FEINGOLD • A chance A ...... ,::::::::s for all to be heard. ~ G 19 UBRARY WEEK CONSUMES CLAREMONT • JENNY SPI1Z • A parody. ~ E ..s::::...... , AN I 'TRODUCTORY SURVEY OF POST)lODEH'\lS'J ~ 20 SURVEYING l HE POSTMODERN LANSCAPE • CHRIS DAVIS _Q c s:::: 22 POSTMODERNISM AND MARX •NTONGELA MAsiLELA L C> 24 POSTMODERNISM ON THE MARGINS • LOUREDES A RGUEUfS --...... , ~ 25 POSTMODERNISM AND MUSIC • WHrr PRESTON 0 ~ T --- 26 BRIUO-PAD AND A NEW WORLD DIS-ORDER • JOHN D. SULUVAN 28 POSTMODERNISM AND LOS ANGELES • JASON SINGER R "Shake Your Groove Tbang!" I Come Join The Party 30 SOMETIME THE TRUTH HURTS •DAVID STOI.BER • Major League Baseball On M ay3rd preview and predictions. N Make That CaD! ) 6ZO-Z89Z 34 THE FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS • ANDREW STARBIN AND JoHN STEWART G • More consrructive suggestions for the American sports scene. THE OTHER SIDE ~»UR'-' E. Y
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bottle rocket, or any other result of un "cnmes" IS even more unfair. of the game: In addttion, students feel acceptable and unnecessary student be The Student Handbook states that that the enfon::ement of rules is inconsis havior, we will call the Claremont Po the Dean of Students' office "under tent, therefore there IS no way to follow RECENT UPHEAVALS IN MEAD CAUSE INCREASED TENSION lice in to deal with those students di stand[s] how challenging it can be to such gwdelines. by rectly: live your values in the midst of other "I just want to know exactly what the BETWEEN ADMINISTRATORS AND STUDENTS Sora Robinson feels that though these offi people with different but valid perspec rules are and then I want them to be en Shepperd cers may outwardly represent the five tives," they add that they "hope that fon::ed cons1stently: cla1ms one Senior, everal events have occurred on the who are not concerned by the existing says •Jt's really too bad because those college administration, they are here to [students] will find [them] both avail "I can't accept or respect rules that are Pitzer campus in the past 2-3 weeks policy, whether or not it is actively and students tthe alarm-pullers) are only protect the needs of students as well. able and wilhng to listen to [students'] not presented fully or enforced ade Sthat have sparked much controver conSIStently enfon::ed. hurting donn residents and other stu "Our officers are simply fulfilling their concerns; as well as to share thetr quately. No one can • sy among students, faculty and staff. "I think that t he alcohol policy 1s dents." duties when asked to come to campus. knowledge as fellow human beings. With respect to these feelings, These issues, beginning w1th the Sat something that the government has set All of the fire alanns in the world arc They do not enjoy dealing with angry (page 5) Michael Tessier sympathizes with the urday, April 6th break up of a Mead down, and the school has no chotec not going to force the admtmstration to and drunken students any more than the In spite of this claim, many students students who have seen the administra quad ·gathering: have resulted in in They have to enfon::e it: cla1ms Fresh change their alcohol pollCtes In fact administration does." feel that their right to speak thetr minds tion, the rules and the general communi creasmg animosity of some of the stu men Jessica Elliot. "l also think that our says TeSSier. they w1ll only force the Robinson adds that she has no qualms has been taken away. ty change over the past few years. He dent body school is one of the most relaxed rules to become tighter. about denying her officers dispatch to One student, who wishes to remain feels, however, that "the change has got According to student sources, R.A.'s schools, in tenns of the alcohol policy, We [the admin1stratton] don't want Pitzer's campus. She was quick to say nameless, refuses to discuss his "values to beg~n somewhere: and he intends on came to the quad to ask students to and it's not like it's stopping anyone to have to pun1sh the majonty of stu that the next time they are unnecessarily and opinions anymore, for fear of re upholding the current policies to the "break up" based on the continual loud from drinking." dents who aren't caustng problems or violently harassed by students she ceiving fines andlor "punishment• from best of h1s ability and that of his current play of musiC. Shortly thereaher Securi Elliott adds that although 1t's "kind of however the fire alanns are dangerous would call the Oaremont Police herself. the Dean of Students' office. Concern is staff. ty arrived under the impression that a pain• when one can't drink outside, to students staff Secuntv and to the Another issue that students want ad now growing among students, who feel Students are continumg to pursue IS there was an unregistered keg. Neither she feels that "basically when you're re Ftre ,'1,1arshals· , dressed is the inconsistency m the way that by expressing their beliefs they will sues that they view as unjust and unfair. Security or the administratton ever lo sponsible, they won't bother you: Tessier went on to explam that stu discipline procedures are carried out. be subject to disdpline. Though these issues need attention, the cated any such keg, and at this time Responsible drinkmg, and considera dents were "rushmg• Campus Securit>' Dean of Students, Jack Lmg, was over In correlatiOn w1th thts, many stu entire admmistration believes that in the there is no comment by the students tion for others, is an issue that Tessier guards as a sort of rebellion to the f1re heard saying that his office tries to -nan dents have felt that their rights to sooal near future, when students have been about whether or not the keg ever exist and the entire admimstration would like ra1ds of Friday, April 12. Off.cers were dle situations individually• to •avoid be gatherings have been infringed upon, subject to a cons1stem set of regulations ed. to see addressed. Most students agree also verbally harassed and physically en ing a police state; students feel that the and have reiterated the idea that the and a constant administrative staff, they Like many issues of controversy at that the reason the alcohol policy dangered when studems threw bottle variation in punishments among those Residential Life staff and the AdminiS (the students) w11l have less trouble ad Pitzer, t.his one seems to revert back to doesn't bother them is because they rockets at the officers. In add1t10n to who committed similar or the same tration "change the rules in the middle hering to the by-laws of the community. the Alcohol Policy: who is or tsn't al aren't the ones infringing on the rights possible injury-mvokmg behav1or, the lowed to dnnk, and where and when of other donn residents. school had to pay up to $120 per mght they are (or aren't) allowed to do so. Senior Sydney Haigh agrees. "It is for Campus Security to patrol the cam "Basically the way it [the Alcohol Pol easier to stgn the piece of paper (to reg pus Saturday night when the alarm svs tcy] is written. and the way the state law ister a keg) than to go through the has tem was turned off for a ·fire watch ' says we need to have it wntten, [says sle of hiding a keg. It is Just a formality, "That money, and the money to pay that] tf you're under 21 , you really can't a safeguard for the school." the techmcians to disconnect and re The Other Side drink on campus," explams Assistant The registration simply helps protect connect the system, comes out of our Alternative Reading For Alternative People Dean of Students and Dean of Residen the school itself and allows 21-year-old budget." The money is deducted from tial Ufe Michael Tessier. students to take some responsibility for the •general revenue budget• (tUition Many students are under the impres their parties and the actions of those and fees), and Tessier adds that it only TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY To EXPRESS YOURSELF sion that attending a private school ex they serve. hurts students when the money has to cuses them from these laws. After considering complaints from be used for these such inCidents. POSIDONS OPEN FOR FAll 1991: In reahty, this law applies to all cam students that party registration is re On behalf of the entire Dean of Stu • Executive Editors • Managing Editor puses, public and private. The fact that quired too far in advance, Tessier reiter dents office, T ess1er adds that they do • Production Assistants • Photography Editor an institution is private does not excuse ates that the cunrent registration pohcy not want to resort to cancelling on-cam 1t from upholding state alcohol serving is still •flexible: pus activities They, m fact plan a lot of • Advertising Manager • Writers and consumptiuon regulations. ·1 would consider any input from stu those activities. and feel that cancelltng "lf you are 21 you can drink in the pn dents as to a new proposal for party reg them would onlv be a last resort and a If you have questions, call Jason Singer, x6169 If interested, complete form below and return to: vacy of your own room; continues istration, including the idea of making result of extrem~ Circumstances Anyone interested in pursuing a career Jason Singer, box 664. Tessier. "Basically the policies we have, I 1ate' registration a possibtlity_- In response to the recent •gathenng· in journalism, publishing, public Ir------, feel , are flex1ble enough so that if some Stemming from the rebellion agamst at wh1ch students launched bottle-rock I Name: body steps out of the privacy of their the alcohol poltcy are some more im ets at Secunty guards. Dtrector of Cam relati~ orjusthavingfun willgreatly I own room they're not immediately aju portant issues. Although an actual "rea pus Security Lena Robinson had this to benefitfrom this experience. ! Campus Address: dtcated or set before a coun • Tessier son" has not been revealed, 1t 1s sup say: I adds that he believes the R.A.'s handle posed that the recent fire alarm pullings I "When the safety of our officers •s m I Phone: the majority of alcohol-related incidents were a student prank with the intent to jeopardy we will take whatever steps are PuU credit per semester a-vat/able for I I and Sttuations justly and humanely. anger the administratiOn I I necessary to regam control You can bet executive editors. Certain positions I Additionally, there are many students I Position Desired: I In response to this allegation, Tessier that 1f one of our offrcers ts inJured by a 1 I qualify for work·study. I I 8 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 L------~ THE BOOTLEG SERIES BOB Volumes 1 - 3
BY BILl FOREMAN
he parking problem tn Mead at Director of Secunty Lena Robmson responded ob. Bob. 0 Great Bob. Bob. This that were real popular in those days. Problem is, only Bob Pitzer has recently become a to this tssue. "That was the only inctdem tn that is the sound of me worshipping at could write 'em halfway decently. This is because he never al PARKING lot so far. It was not under surveillance because T great source of frustration for the altar of Dylan. Of course, I lowed a song, no matter how political,to become a mere dia the equipment was sttll in the mtddle of installa B on-campus students. Although the don't really do that, but I come awfully tribe. "Who Killed Davy Moore· is a good example. On the number of spaces for Mead dorm has tion. Since then there have been no ather dtstur close. Here's a short play to illustrate surface it rails against the vtolence of boxing, but it is populat bances: In Robinson's opinion, the East Mesa lot been increased, it appears that the this situation: ed not by slogans, but real emottons and real characters. Dy amount of cars has increased as well. In is the safest on campus. It is by far the most well NON-BELIEVER: What's so special lan uses the Rashomon method to achieve this end (ask a pro addition to this, off-campus students lit. about Bob Dylan7 His voice is terrible, fessor if you don't know, as they know everything. Do not - ANYTIME consistently park in the Mead lot when In response to the 1ssue of safety, Rob1nson he's a rotten harmonica player, and mere I repeat - do not ask an administrator, as he or she... uh ...she visiting friends or attending classes, re adds that while there are too few Secur1ty staff ly an adequate guitar player. It's the or he... hmm ... sfhe (now how the hell is that pronounced?) will ducing the amount of available spaces members at this time to allow for personal escons words, isn't it7 send you to another office to receive the same treatment). A for those who live in the dorm. between the lot and the dorm, there 1s a phone in BILL: Die, you 1gnorant heathen! series of characters denies responsibility for Moore's death. "(Maybe) they should have Freshmen park in the lot that can be util1zed for escon purposes. (Cuts the non-believer in two with a pen the other lot (East Mesa)," says Junior Matt Mar "A Student simply has to call upon her or his ar knife.) Not me,' says the gambling man, tin. (That idea was considered briefly by the ad rival. We will etther dtspatch an officer immedi Dig7 Bob's, like, the greatest. I mean, W ith his ticket stub still in his hand ministration to discourage Freshmen from bring ately, or we will arrange for an escon through the the Dead cover all his tunes, so he must "lt wasn't me who knocked him down ing cars, however, it is no "safer~ for Freshmen to Escon Service." bel (Beware: I'm now throwing up.) My hands didn't touch him none. park there than it is for anyone else). Because of the lack of available spaces, dorm Okay, okay. Why all this talk about I didn't commit no ugly sin, "Off-campus students should definitely have to residents often reson to parking illegally. Though Bob? Well, they (i.e. the record compa Anyway, I put money on him to win. Claremont Poltce occasionally ticket those parked use the other lot," adds Junior Matt Weiss. This is ny} have finally released some of the Dy It wasn't me who made him fall. a good plan, according to Dean of Housing in fire or handicap zones, more often than not it is lan bootlegs that I've spent hundreds of You can't blame me at all Michael Tessier, since generally off-campus Stu a safe bet to park there, even overnight dollars on in the past! But hey, I bought dents are only on campus for a few hours at a One student, who wished to remain anony them again! Why? Because it's so great I What a great idea for a tune! Wish I had come up with it. time. mous, said, "I have at least ten tickets from park can't even believe it! Not only does Dylan make his point about boxing, but he also There seems to be a lot of negativity revolving ing tn red zones this semester I know they'll nev What we're dealing with is a three tape reflects on an important facet of human nature: the inability around the new East Mesa lot itself. Most Mead er get around to towmg me so why shouldn't I or CD (not on vinyl, folks. Pretty lame.) we humans have to accept responsibility for something nasty. and Holden Students use it as a last reson even park there?~ boxed set entitled "BOB DYLAN the Not only that, but it's great when Bob says, ·wHO KILLED after Sanborn. ' Most students do, however, respect the blue bootleg series volumes 1-3 [rare & unre DAVY MOORE t Ask Rob Smith to sing it for you. "If there aren't any spaces in Mead, I refuse to handicap zones. leased] 1961-1991• and jeez it's great. It's One real surprise about this box is that the newest stuff park in the BFE [East Mesa) lot unless I'm abso Of greater frustratiOn is the 1S'SUe of the Grove four hours long, and 75% of it is First from the 80's, is surprisingly good. The entire decade is con~ lutely desperate. I'd rather park at Sanborn ,~ House lot. The m1ddle spaces have been pamted Rate Bob, 5% it Total Pure Classic Bob, sidered to be Dylan's worst period by many, with two peaks claims Freshperson Matt Karatz. Although San over w1th black, allegedly to be considered "tile 15% Really Good Bob, and 10% is Oh being 1983's •tnfidels" and 1989's ·oh Mercy," which is my born is logistically further from Mead than the gal,· however, no one has abstained from parkmg Well, It's Kinda Interesting Bob. That's pick for Dylan's best record post-•Btood on the Tracks: Yes, it East Mesa lot, Karatz says he parks at Sanborn there as yet, especially at mght. This is conve 105%, but like I give a shit anyway. I'm about to graduate. was a long dry spell for Dylan, and due to the (relatively) low "just because at least you know you're near a nient to those in need of a late-night space, how 'ote the absence of Really Boring Bob. So of course you er quality of most of his albums at this time, I thought that the dorm: ever, it often obstructs people who are parked tn should buy it. It's $35 for 4 hours of Bob (that's a lot} on CD. unreleased material included on "The Bootleg Series" would be the perimeter spaces. "1 was parking illegally (to avoid the East Mesa Pretty good deal, Jack. kinda shaky. I was mistaken. Most of the tunes are at least as lot)," admits Senior Katie Marble, "but I now have "I know I have a big car, • says Sent or Jenny Here are the categories of tunes on the record: ( 1) Early good as the stuff he released, with two or three maJOr master a plethora of parking tickets so that's kind of a Sampson, •but I don't usually have a problem get Acousttc Stuff, which makes up nearly half the set, (2) '65-'66 pieces. Why Bob didn't release these tunes I don't know. problem. Now I will park in the 'Rancho Cuca ting in and out of spaces. The only time I do IS Electric Stuff, (3) The later Stuff, and (4) The Really A Whole Maybe he was drunk the whole time. That would explain monga' lot if I have to but I can't say I really enjoy when someone is parked in the middle section." Lot Later Stuff Aren't the titles for my categories cute? (Be · Down in the Groove." having to do so: Other students have complamed that when ware: you're now throwing up.) Let us examine the nature of Why listen to this? Because it's Bob, and great Bob at that. their cars are blocked Security won't have the ob Katie and Matt agree that the principle of hav these distinctions. But why listen to Bob. Well, 'cause he's dealt with all the shit ing to walk through the •wasteland" to get to the structive cars towed or even come out to ticket The Early Acoustic Stuff is terribly good, and, to my sur I'm dealin' with an' he's had his hean stepped on too an' he dorm is enough to prevent them from utilizing them prise, I find myself enjoying Dylan's interpretations of tradi wants to be himself but sometimes he can't no matter how hard that lot. "They may as well have a tram to trans Robinson explains that the problem w1th Secu tional tunes and themes to be more mteresting than the com he tries I can dig it an' he's behaved like a pig too just like me port us to and from Mead (or Holden), • Matt rity and parking issues is the lack of available pa plete onginals in the set. Case in point: · Moonshiner." Cred sometimes an' he doesn't like himself when he does that either added, half-jokingly. trol officers. ited as "Traditional song adapted and arranged by Bob Dylan; an' he likes to laugh an' wants people to live in peace an' har In addition to the safety of people who are "We only have two officers on duty dunng the this is a staggering, masterful performance. The tune's about a mony an' wants to fill his life with reality an' love no matter forced to park in the far lot, there is also the prob day for patrol. Of all the 1ssues Security deals drunk -a sad, sad, subject. Dylan's delivery is one of the best how hard that gets to be sometimes just like me an' just like lem of vehicle safety. "1 had a friend whose car with, parking is one of the lowest priorities • I've ever heard. He's barely 22, yet he makes this tune's char you. By the way, that last sentence was a semi-ripoff of "Last was broken into at the East Mesa lot. When he To Robinson, and the Security force, the safety acter, a world weary drunk about to keel over from cirrhosis thoughts on Woody Guthrie,· a poem included in this set, but went to Security to try and view the videotape, of individual people comes before that of parking. come to major life. I can't describe it. It's great. AnothC:. I meant it, ya know. AJso, two quotes relevant to all seniors: (to try and identify the perpetrators) they said Contrary to student beliefs, Campus Security offi great tune is called "Who Killed Davy Moore~ a Dylan original ( 1) •20 years of school in' and they put you on the day shift • that that panicular space was not under vtdeo cers are busy every hour of their shifts about this boxer who got knocked out and didn't wake up. and (2) "Any day now, any day now, I shall be released." Both surveillance.'" "We need a separate parking management pro- Uke, ever. This is one of those "topical songs; political ditties are included. See PARKING, page 33 10 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 · -lhe-Other Side: Apri_l 23, 1991 • 11 GARY SlSYDER ALLEN Gl1NSBERG
measured and meter is what gives measure. All that meter in all the classical forms- or the nineteenth century is, in English poetry, is a play between stressed and un classical forms... and read a lot of Poe before I was ten - stressed syllables, that's a natural feature of our language Poe, and Wordsworth, and Shelley's ·ode to the W est Wind· anyway. All we do in poetry is formalize that a little bit, struc and Keats' ·ode on a Grecian urn- and · ode to Melancholy"' ture it a little bit and that in turn is what gives rhythm to a po and got all those very early. em so I am very sensitive to it, I'm very aware of it, I work DIGNAN: Do you have a particular definition of poetry that's with it very carefully. I listen to a poem over and over again personal to you or one your're particularly fond of? when I am in the process of composing it. GINSBERG: Well, I've worked out lots of them, you want one? DIGNAN: Do you think people of the younger generation, in DIGNAN: Yeah. Pull one out of the. .. comparison with what you were dealing with when you were my age, are going to have to deal differently? GINSBERG: I'll take one out of the memory. Maximum information, minimum number of syllables comma rhythmic SNYDER: Oh, I think there are alot of differences. I think it's articulation of feeling period. First thought, be st thought e harder for you guys to get jobs. Used to be, if you were will ...• quote unquote, quote first thought. best thought unquote. ..:::J ing to any kind of work you could just step out and find some ..... kind of work right away. And, I think economically it's all • •• ~ c around harder for young people. Rents are relatively higher, DIGNAN: For you, what is the connection between poetry and :z:• jobs are relatively scarcer. competition is higher. It's not as the soul. 0 0 easy going, not as loose. There's not as much space to move GINSBERG The soul I don't know anything about; spirit I do. &; 1:1.. around in as you used to get That's how it seems to me. Spirit is breath. Spiritus, Latin breathing, breath. Poetry See, I have a son who's about to graduate from college, he's comes out on the breath. GARY SNYDER at UC Berkeley, he'll be twenty three next month, so I'm very DIGNAN: Oxygen of the heart? acquainted with the situation 'cause I see what he's trying to GINSBERG: Yeah. The, well...the inhalation feeds oxygen to the figure out heart and the exhalation of speech feeds oxygen to the DIGNAN: Can you trace a particular evolution your work has consciousness-to other people's. ALLEN G-INsBERG taken? ••• SNYDER: Well lately I've been working in longer forms and also By Stephen Dignan DIGNAN: Do you have a top few favorite books, say top three? in prose. I just recently published a book of essays, my first The counter-cultural movement which arose in the /me 40's SNYDER: See. I don't think that way. Books are just resources. really extended prose work and probably the last seven or GINSBERG: My top three are Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Rimbaud's and 50's had, among its principal avatan, two poets who ,-e I don't elevate them into icons. They're like tools. That's like eight years I've done more prose writing than poetry and Season in Hell and Illuminations, and. let us say, the Heart cently visited Pitzer to read their work, talk about ideas, and asking me do you have a great flower. Well, yeah, sure, I've several of the poems I'm working on are fairly long, fairly Sutra literature.( pause) Want more? hang out with students. The following dialogues took place got a lot of flowers. they're all over the place. complicated, fairly large-sized projects, not just short little DIGNAN: Yeah, just one or two more questions ... around high noon in Grove House's south garden on the DIGNAN: Then you don't sometimes have one or a few that you lyrical poems so. yeah, there is a difference there. GINSBERG: Want more books? fourth of April. The interoiew begins with Gary Snyder and have pa rticular affection for? · DIGNAN: Is prose a little more permanent statement or is there DIGNAN: Sure. concludes with Allen Ginsberg. SNYDER: I don't actually. I'm not a person of the book, that is just more to say? GINSBERG: Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, Borrough's-what? DIGNAN: Do you have a personal definition of poetry or one to say I don't elevate a bible or a textbook or a volume of phi SNYDER: Well that's not necessarily how it works. Sappho. the any Borrough's, but let us say... l forget the title but its a you are fond of particularly? losophy into some special category and say ·oh, that's really Greek poetess? Her brief lyric poems are as permanent as record of all his short essays put out by City lights. Could say SNYDER: Well, I have the short one, the medium length one wonderful: I don't think that way. any poems in western culture. If you want to make a perma Naked Lunch, but I'd rather have later. For photography the and the long one. DIGNAN: How does that belief compare with say elevating a nent statement, just one little poem that's unforgettable; do book of Bernice Abbott's photography edited by Hank O'Neill. it-forget all the rest. (laughter) DIGNAN: Whichever feels right Giant Sequoia to an awed status and. for instance. standing • • • next to Scalebroom? DIGNAN: Yeah. SNYDER: Well, I guess the short definition of poetry in my mind DIGNAN: What were some of Kerouac's top few favorites is song. Poetry is to prose as song is to everyday speech. It's SNYDER: Well, a person who is new to plants is obviously go SNYDER: Nobody remembers the long stuff, but they remember books that you remember him carrying on about? measure, somewhat musical, intensified, sometimes telling a ing to be more impressed by the Giant Sequoia. but a person the little short poems. GINSBERG: Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov, A Raw Youth, story. sometimes capturing a moment. sometimes instructive, who has a really refined eye as to what's going on in nature DIGNAN: Nobody reads the long stuff anymore. either. Shakespeare sonnets, Haml et, other. Hart Crane's The won't make a judgement between the two, will simply see but it's an intensification of language. (Laughter) Bridge, Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel and You each for what it is. It's like comparing, as they say, apples DIGNAN: What does poetry have to do with the spirit for you? DIGNAN: One last question, does a dog have Buddah-nature? Can't Go Home Again, Jules Verne Journey to the End of the and oranges. you don't do it But for uncooked people in the Time, Rimbaud, Oswald Spengler The Decline of the West, SNYDER: We say sometimes or from ancient times we say that SNYDER: What do you think? world, whether they're young or old, large and striking ob Balzac, Dickens, Sir Thomas Browne, above all Rabelais. if a poet writes a really good poem, he or she is inspired. In ject s are impressive. For cooked people, the ordinary is DIGNAN: Mu. Thoreau, Whitman, and then ... from 1931 or '2 The Diamond spired means the spirit has entered them. The word 'spirit' is enough. the ordinary is quite enough. However. since big related to the word breath, it means breath originally, but SNYDER: That's just a word. See if you can't bring that out of Sutra and The Prajna Paramita Sutra, specifically, from a Sequoias are big, and also ra re, I would not like to see them something deeper in yourself. collection of Buddhist writings called a Buddhist Bible. spirit of itself does not express itself, so it could be said that cut down or destroyed. ·cause they are impressive. (laughter) poetry is a way of giving voice to the spirit That is not to say DIGNAN: That's the real question isn't it? Breaking through the ••• DIGNAN: In your talk, you mentioned Jeffers and Rexroth as that poetry is spiritual. The word spiritual means something blackness? (chuckle) be ing important to you. Do you have other poets you'd DIGNAN: What do you think about people from my generation. different Spiritual too often means voodoo or superstition or SNYDER: Yeah. all dogs are running around with the Buddah born around the late sixties? name? ghosts or religious ideology or theology. Poetry doesn't have nature, totally enlightened, having a great time. Ha, he h. GINSBERG: I like to sleep with them. They're young and fresh. SNYDER: Oh yeah, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, William anything to do with any of that, if poetry is spiritual it has to fresh mind, fresh skin, fresh sex. (laugh) do with real spirit, which is to say, formless and uncreated Carlos Williams, and Wallace St evens. There are many other AllEN GINSBERG: DIGNAN: Somebody told me you never get embarrassed, is spirit, not ideological or theological spirit poets, not so well known. Phillip Walen, Lew Welch who have been very dear to me. Robert Duncan's work, Jack DIGNAN: When did you first get interested in poetry? that true? (laughter) DIGNAN: What are a few of your favorite books? Spicer's work, Diane DePrima's work, Jerry Martin who you GINSBERG: Well, my father was a poet; it's a family business. GINSBERG: Sure, I get embarrassed. If I get caught in a lie, SNYDER: Right now, my favorite book is Michael Barber called probably never heard of, nobody'd ever heard of him. Just DIGNAN: Family business? And what sort of influence did he that's embarrassing. To be caught telling the truth is not so The Terrestrial Vegetation of California. Are you talking al ot of people whose work has been very dear to me. embarrassing. unless some body rejects the truth, like if you about classics or just things that I'm reading right now? have on you? DIGNAN: What role does meter have in your poetry? GINSBERG: DIGNAN: Anything that has had a particular influence on you. Well, he was a lyric poet. so I got trained very early continued on following page SNYDER: As I say, part of my definition of poetry is that it's 1 2 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 The Other Side: April 23, 1991 • 13 GARY SNYDER GARY SNYDER ALLEN G'lNSBERG ALLEN GlNSBERG hidden as of the moment we talk and absolutely amnesia· all one now. You can't separate it. they're all the same thing had gotten mad when I said that. but as long as you have amused rather than offended. ized in the public consciousness by the med ia and the now. Politics is the Republicans beating the Democrats over good humor. The reason I speak about sex is because sexual ••• government is the devastating oil slick in the Persian Gulf . the head by being the war party and the aggressors, politics openness is also openness to nature and openness to ideas DIGNAN: Who are some of your favorite poets? DIGNAN: Oh yeah. is the war, politics is the ecological devastation of war. Or and openness to experience, humor. ecology is the politics of the war and the cause of the war is GINSBERG: Gregory Corso, very good, very good. I learned more GINSBERG: Nothing has been seen of that in weeks and yet it is ••• an ecological paradox that we've refused to shift our energy from him than any living poet, Gary for ideas as well as probably the largest story on the planet. much bigger than all DIGNAN: Tell me about your poem "Please Master"-you poetry, Peter Orlovsky for raw language, ya know, real fresh. base from fossil fuel-which is to begin with the curse of the come in with the image of the dog at the end of that poem . the ditsy flag waving that was paraded end lessly. John Wieners for Tragic Tears, Robert Creely for wit, Furthermore, what people don't understand-and this is planet-so that whoever wins the war nothing good can GINSBERG: It's a masochistic jackoff fantasy. But. I think it's thought, and form. Michael McGiure for Biological important to publish-Schwartzkopfs karma includes the come of it. We expended all this energy trying to protect our pretty much universal. Vehemence, Borroughs for prose poetry, Kerouac 's Mexico fact that his father and Colonel Kermit Roosevelt of the CIA source of our drug from the pushers,the users and the DIGNAN: Does the relationship of dog and man have some City Blues and Scattered Poems, which I think is the seminal helped overthrow Mossadeq in Iran in 1953. pushers battling. We expend all this energy to get our illicit kind of .... book of the second half of the century, Anne Waldman· substance and so we've blown the possibility of shifting over among the younger poets-·Ed Sanders (The Fuggs), David DIGNAN: Oh, really? to something renewable. I wou ld say the model is A.A., GINSBERG: No I never made out with a dog before. Cope from Granville, Michigan, Andy Klaussen from Oakland, GINSBERG: Yeah. Schwartzkopf isn't a country bumpkin, he's an where you have a user, substance abuser and everyone (all DIGNAN: What sort of allegory is going on? he just put out a book. I read with him in Oakland, wrote a old Middle East expert and his father was one of the people the other nations) are enabling this substance abuser, we're GINSBERG: The sense of submission and degradation. Like a preface to his book, and I've known him a long time. An that started the whole problem the problem of the cause and shooting up too much, we're burning down our veins and we dog is so dependent on a master, the least glance can make unpublished poet, David Greenberg from Rutgers, nineteen consequences and effects that have led to the situation of are destroying our own, sort of system, liver, and we haven't a dog cower or the least friendliness can make a dog jump years old, Eliot Katz from Rutgers, Diane DePrima, older, our bombing our own karma, so to speak, and bombing the bottomed out, but we're gonna have to bottom out to get off up and down, even get a hard on. (laughter) So it was just a Phillip Namertia, Amire Barraca. Garden of Eden because when Mossadeq was overthrown in it . We've abused the family with our drunken energy 1953 in Iran for wanting nationalize the oil fields and have natural thing, I didn't think anything out on that one. I like that DIGNAN: Any of the older poets you 'd name? to consumption and we don't want to admit that something poem, I read it the other night I don't read it very often, but I it as a nationa l property. He was accused of being a GINSBBIG: We ll, naturally, Pound, Williams, Eliot, Charles alternative would be better, another energy. We get mad and was giving a reading at McCabe's and I decided since I had communist or neurotic or something, then put to death after a Reznikoff. You write? abuse everybody who tries to suggest we're addicted and four readings to do, two shows a night, so I began in 1947 public trail where he wept in court. That led to the Shah, we're getting violent. Just like an addict who gets his fix and and read chronologically-reading poems for each show DIGNAN: Yes, I do. whose Westernization and secret police were so obnoxious has to be full of piss and vinegar for a short while until he has and the I think "Please Master" was about 67, 68, 69 ,so the ••• they led to a fundamentalist Ayatollah that led to our hatred enough craving for another war, another fix. And the biggest second night I got up to (69) and that came up, that was the DIGNAN: There's a folk musician who wrote a tune called of the Shi'ite that led to our arming Saddam Hussein in Iraq thing about an addict's violent behavior is the denial, that's next poem, and I said ·o.K. here it goes· .. .1 don't read it that ·Beatniks Gonna Rise Again,· what do you think about that against Iran while secretly we were still arming the Ayatollah the big denial of the mass media, the denial of the energy often, that's a good one though, unless I can get up and ... .l possibility? with lranscam that led to the massacre of the Kurds and, problem, the denial of the mass murder in Iraq and the denial read it really with a great deal of feeling, there was GINSBERG: Wha ... Save your marijuana joints, the Beatniks will now, to this very day, because we are afraid of going along of the ecological disaster of the war. somebody in the audience I like so I just sort of mentally rise again. with the vengeful Ayatollah Shi'ites, so at the root of alot of • •• directed it to him and got right into it and because I got right this chain of event implies the actions of, I think his name DIGNAN: It's a great tune, really DIGNAN: Has the media created a filtered. standard version in into it, it was like totally passionate rather than was Alfred Schwartzkopf. And that's been hidden from the the minds of the public? embarrassing .... well, it could be embarrassing it could be GINSBERG: That's funny, I was thinking the other night · save public. your confederate money, boys the South will rise again: Ya GINSBERG: We ll, I th ink it's control of the med ia by the passionate depending on the circumstances. It's actually DIGNAN: So mopping up of the blood (or oil) spilled by your based on the actual emotion of orgasm or what leads to it. know that? Save your marijuana ... what'd ya call the... save fathers. government, specifically the fact that, is it NBC that's owned anyway, it has a kind of organic quality to it Where did you your broken, save your torn ... save your marijuana .. .what'd ya by G.E. which has contracts with the CIA and there's not call the part at the end? GINSBERG: Unto the third generation, no less. Isn't that gonna be any criticism of the CIA or the military or the war; see it? interesting? DIGNAN: I've got your book The Fall of America. DIGNAN: The cherry? CBS used to have William Paley who was a CIA agent and I DIGNAN: Schwartzkopf claiming in the media to like Bach and GINSBBIG: No, the little, the very end, what's left over? think William Casey was on the board of directors of CBS and GINSBERG: What was your first impression when you read that? read some classical Greek. I can just see him in Riyadh, presently, I think it's Harold Brown who was quoted in the DIGNAN: Well, my first impression was, "I can't believe this DIGNAN: The roach? curlin' up after a tough day with a volume of Xenophon. Pentagon Papers as advising the civilian bombing of Vietnam guy is writing this,· ya know? GINSBERG: Yea h, yeah "Save your marijuana roaches, boys the GINSBERG: Is that what he says? to break the will of the Vietnamese, so there's not gonna be beats will rise againw (laughter) That's a funny one. (laughter) DIGNAN: Those are apparently his claimed accolades. any criticizing of the wild bombing in Iraq. Only 20% were smart bombs, and 80% were sloppy bombs intended to bomb GINSBERG: Yeah, that was my first reaction -I couldn't believe ••• GINSBERG: He hasn't copped to his father's karma . But then I was writing this. DIGNAN: I had a question here about the war, what do you there's never been an investigation of why we we're building them back to the Stone Age. So there will be no criticism on CBS. Then ABC is Tisch Construction so they're not gonna DIGNAN: I grew to appreciate it on its own terms though. think of the war? up Saddam and the consequences of our deal with Turkey to GINSBERG: The big bully beat up the little bully, the big Satan suppress the Kurds and put up with their military police with criticize and somebody else involved over at Resorts GINSBERG: That's what I love, the idea I can't believe anyone International. And then PBS is subsidized by multinationals would dare say such a thing and yet realize, it's universal or beat up the little Satan. The most spectacular example of the Emirates and the Sheiks to go along with; and their sort of brainwashing in the history of mass communications. The poisonous autocracies and corrupt autocracies alienates the and oil companies, Mobil and so on, so they're not gonna be near universal or something related to it. It's funny, you know critical, so the entire industry ... the old line, Dryden or Pope I think. "what oft was thought, proof of the bra inwashing is that the story of the mass rest of the area of the world. We have to support the person but ne'er so well expressed: casualties was obliterated during the war and only leaked whom we were denouncing as an enemy before, Assad in DIGNAN: It's all on so me underground radio station in out slowly and still incompletely to this very day, which is Southern California that only broadcasts from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. DIGNAN: Right, I think that's the definition of wit, actually, Syria, we have to support the worst excesses of the Israelis April 4th, 1991. We have no idea of the civilian casualties. As (laughter) so its not heard. funny enough. against the Palestinians, we have to support China against it was pointed out on the editorial page of the New York the stu dent movement and God knows what other GINSBERG: As for the print med ia there was a criticism of GINSBERG: Yes, it's a witty poem in that sense. Also, another Times just about three weeks ago by the conservative compromises. Maybe the central Communist party is against military censorship and a lawsu it brought against military good line, · one touch of nature makes the whole world kin.· William Sapphire that General Schwartzkof and the military dissidents in Russia in order to make this stupid deal which is censorship by The Nation and The Village Voice who were DIGNAN: Mmn, hnn. have been stonewalling the figures available on casualties of not over. As Dylan told me the other day, • this is only the excluded from the press pools, but neither the Times nor the GINSBERG: What's your proclivity- women or men or both? the Iraq is they know. they don't want to announce it, they beginning of the battle, the war's not over, this is only one Washington Post nor Time magazine took part in the suit. So DIGNAN: I'm a girl type. don't want the Americans to see what they've done. And the battle. w the collusion of the newspaper record of the New York second big story that was suppressed and only recently GINSBERG: There's something about that poem that I like that ••• Times, The Washington Post, L.A. Times and the networks. surfacing is the vast devastation of the oilfields and the black alot of straight men and women have responded to in a DIGNAN: What do you see as being the battle of the poets they all colluded to accept the military censorship and it is friend ly way, as familiar rather than "Oh, well you're a rain which is now being described as apocalyptic as we I as growing up today, do you see their plight as being the only the dissidents who didn't, so that's the proof of that fact fuc! 14 • The Other Side: April23, 1991 The Other Side: April 23, 1991 • 15 1 1 5TUDE~T ACTMSM I~ THE 1990 5 5TUDE~T ACTIVISM I~ THE 1990 5 method of determining right and more objectively tell me that the right used to sup- wrong, without which society would to expression, to open debate is a press hate ', ~ I fall into chaos. The ideals we strongly healthy element of a free society speech defended ' / defend as Americans are unrealistic in by the traditional ..._ _- \l_})f'he Pendulum Swings the abstract; complete freedom would The Reagan Condition is not camp. Energies cur· BY KAREN STUN be anarchy, complete justice would rently being directed at this tyranny they consider excessive multtcultural ake a walk down any street in questioning, academta naturally sets it mean executing eye for an eye punish a lifetime sentence - we will may be the most productive, as com ism. Conservatives and moderates Claremont. Notice the clean self up for battle Wtth accepted notions ment for all crimes. The end goal of plaints will come from both camps hold that the quest of multtrulturalism see a new face in the White ness, the wholesome atmo of what is valuable. Additionally the multiculturalists is to come as dose Meanwhtle, I cannot see enher stde T spurred on by the example of rebellion is to protect individuals from getting to realizing absolute freedom as possi of the multicultural argument as the vt sphere, the quiet and polite manner of House again. Someday. their feeltngs hurt, not a right protect the people you meet. You are not in in China, eastern Europe and South ble , but because absolute freedom olently dangerous force whtch each Africa, students in the United States ed by the Bill of Rights. Instead they could not functionally exist in a soct· Through such discussion I a Iso have feels the other to be Certainly each Berkeley, surrounded by homelessness support the right to freedom of speech, and the posting of political manifestos. are making the 1990's a decade of new ety, all they can do is attack the exist the wonderful opportumty to convince must continue to votce complaints, and which includes protectton of racial You are not in Harvard Square, subject heights in political activism. ing structure that negates their own be a doubter of the merits of my point of painful as it may be, each must also Its slurs and other ~ate speech~ attacked to the random haranguing of soap box Obviously, an attack on the bedrock liefs and selves. view, rather than mstill her/his hostility ten to the other. I see history as a by the multicultural movement. by imposing rules of no argument. The revolutionaries. Claremont has none beliefs and modus oprra"di of an entire While I agree with the fundamental pendulum whtch swings fatrly consis· The main complaint of those oppos of the earmarks of the expected set culture is bound to express itself in ev principles of the multiculturalists 1 do maintaining of free speech rights is cru temly between the political and cultur ery arena. Most complaints voiced by ing multiculturalist activism on cam fea r the silence it places on other 'view dal for the sake of the multicutural ar al left and right lf people could see is tings for heated political debate. So puses however is that emphasis is why then are the pages of our college student activists have been of blatant points. I, like all people, have a hard gument as well, wtthout such rights sues as outlasting thetr own personal drawn away from the true purpose of newspapers ftlled with headlines of po disrespect for basic civil rights; mts time hearing out views that I feel of. their protests would never be heard lifetimes, both perspectives would be higher education. They see the univer litical antagonism between students treatment of individuals through fend or oppress me, and in ma ny re Back on campus however, freedom of far more mellow. Conservattves re sity as a place to ask questions and and administrators, between faculty racism, sexism, ablism and homopho spects would be joyous at the cultural speech is in danger for other reasons. lax- the more idtosyncrattc comp l ~mts spark debate, endeavors they feel are members and college organizations? bia are evils which reappear in student reprimand of, for example, sexist state The shocking truth is that fi rst amend of multiculturalists will eventually die quelled by the belief that there tS only For the past thirty years, activism has papers ne.arly every week. Yet activists ments. I also go out of my way to ment nghts are not legally protected down as basic civ1l rights condtttons one v1ewpoint that is politically correct had a place on college campuses, but it have recently become hardcore, ex avoid offending others, but I realize on private college campuses. Only improve. Multirulturalists, thmgs are and no others can be tolerated. Tradi that this is my own choice based on public universities are subJect to stnct starting to go in your dtrectionJ The has recently come to dominate the tending their political voice to include tionalists feel that certain top1cs of framework of academic life. The ex issues which more subtly infringe upon my personal morals; there is not an en interpretations of this baste right. Reagan Condition is not a lifeume sen study become taboo in an environment tent of student and professor involve what they see as their basic nghts. At forced law that keeps me in line on this While this obstacle has held back some tence -- we will see a new face m the that is centered around avoidmg of ment at our colleges reflects a new San Francisco State, students recently issue. However, my abstract ideals multicultural activism, it has also been White House again. Someday. fense of anyone. These traditional ed wave of political awareness that tS picketed a political science course, not ucators fear that many professors and founded in the desire to overhaul west because it didn't include black politics, students see the sole purpose of the em rulture. Anger and resentment are but because it did, and was listed in the university as being to reinvent the boiling over into protestS and demon course catalog under political science racial and sexual structure of society, strations, a reaction to authority whose rather than black studies. Student rather than being to study and observe extremity has not been seen since the demonstrations against the tradttional core rurriculum at Stanford were pow various elements of that structure. Of early 1970's. course what they fai l to d iscuss is Most activism is the work of students erful enough to convince the university whether multiculturalist domination on and professors who make up a newly to abolish its western culture require campus reflects an entire culture in tur named contingent of left-wing politics ment and replace it with a program moil, on its way to tearing down the in the United States, the multicultural that emphasizes work by Third World hierarchical structure that defines it. ists, derisively called the •politically authors, women and other minorities. In naming the multiculturalists •polit correct• movement by the right. Com While these gains are widely applaud ically correct~ their critics have struck a plete equality and recognition for mi ed, some complaints of the multicultur tender nerve with the American public. nonty groups is their goal, be it alists appear petty to critics. When The possibtlity that someday only one through equal opportunity employ dining hall workers at Harvard held a set of beliefs and ideals will be accept ment and admissions, or extending · back to the 50's· theme party, one able in our supposedly free society study subjects to include alternative dean reproached them for being nostal sends waves of panic through most perspectives to white western male gic about a decade when segregation Americans. Multiculturalists would ar dominated culture. Deconstructionist prevailed. gue that to a large extent, that is what theories in literature and other disci The great scope of issues which have CLOThiNg already exists in our culture. The un· plines have de-centered the focal point met recent protest has caused conser wavering acceptance of patriarchy and ~91 to of study, questioning the right of west· vatives to call •political correctness'' a Western notions of right and wrong ern thought to dominate the class cause raging out of control. So much represents a narrow, regimented way of NOTES: Valuable Coupon room. Methods of teaching and learn controversy has been created at thinking that does not exactly leave in Ing are under inspection, even ways of schools around the nation that a back dtviduals free to determine their own - 20o/o o ff m.ost items speaking and thinking (the valuing of lash group has formed. The National beliefs. Truth be told, there is no way logic over intuition, for example) can Association of Scholars, calling them· second the human mind could handle com - some exceptions be labeled western or patriarchal, and selves a proponent of •traditional cur plete freedom of choice. People need pomona ,CA therefore are challenged by multicul riculums,• is made up of college faculty some sort of structure to their lives, a turalists. Having reached this point of and administrators who oppose what Valid only with coupon lL U$ At: Expreis: 5/7/9 1 (114} 620-'ZZ 70 16 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 The National Enquirer Look Alike Page STUDENT ACTIVISM IN THE 1990's Democratic Education: LIBRARY WEEK A Chance For All To Be Heard CONSUMES BY CATHY FEINGOLD eludes my needs as a woman and the needc; of people of col· CLAREMONT mergency meetings at Ktmberly, mtssed exams and marathon Monday night meetings are all part of the or, gays/lesbians and the phys1cally challenged Rather I Ework of the Progressive Student Union (PSU ). The ma seek a democratic education so that I can change these pat )Onty of our communtty has encountered the PSU through terns of exclusion, not just gam a proht off of them petitiOns, newspaper arl!cles and a barrage of flyers. Most re l am ttred of people tellmg me to "stop complaining be centlv, the PSU has been involved in a free speech camp lo cause this school has been good to you." I am extremely cated at Scnpps to mobtltze other students around the viola privileged to have access to higher education and view many lion ol free speech that took place at Scripps College The of my decisions for classes and pantcipation in events as a po -Claremont, California Wachtel further stated, "I just love stated, "I wish I was an Oscar PSU encompasses the whole community 10 that 1t IS open to litical statement. The people who have told me to stop com all members of the colleges and the surrounding communi plainmg obviously do not datly defend the1r postuon of pow· The Clar emont Colleges were to see the kids busting their asses Meyer Weiner." He then vanished. lies As part of a student movement, we must all ask our er in class or do not have to fight many peoples attempts to rocked by controversy concerning to study and analyze the absolute On Thursday, a group of stu selves the follow1ng questions. How did we get here? silence them. It has not been easy even w1thm the PSU to National Library Week last week. dribble rve just lectured them on. dents met with Pitzer President Where dtd we come from? Whose mterests do the colleges undo the patterns that perpetuate oppresstve dynamiCS The first visible spark of dissi You should see the look of fear Frank Ellsworth to voice their serve~ Is the college accessible to members of the surround W1thin the group, we each struggle with tak1ng respons1bdity dence occurred on Monday, April they get on their faces sometimes." anger. As the door closed on the ing communtttes? We all have a stake tn our educations and for the privilege that we are ascribed RealiZing that the eighth, when an unidentified stu Fear of violence caused First La closed-door meeting, Ellsworth an obltgation to use our knowledge responsibly. power we have due to our race, gender sexual preference and dent ran through the st acks of dy Barbara Bush to cancel her was heard to say, "Let me get this It is empowenng to watch the student movement on cam class can be used to liberate or oppress other individuals we Honnold Library clad in a costume long - awaited trip to Honnold li straight, you guys want to destroy pus grow and strengthen A real struggle has occurred to struggle with each o ther to make us all accountable for our resembling the popular Cliff Notes brary to celebrate National Li Honnold in case it falls on some reach out to as many d1fferent organizations as possible and positions of power Thus, the PSU allows us to confront our screaming, "Libraries are wrong! brary Week and also to promote one? Damn, you guys sure are a to form a coalition that suppons the needs and goals of each own priv1lege withm a group that offers us support and chal Libraries can be fatal! If a library her literacy programs. Librarian goofy bunch." of the various groups. As the groups began to d1alogue, tt lenge as we work towards undomg the patterns of oppress1on fell on you, it would hurt a lot!" Broki expressed her disappoint The meeting went well into the was apparent that we were all on a path workmg towards at that we have learned to perpetuate. So, once again, you ask me, •Aren't you gomg a btt too far Librarian Ethel "boom bunny" ment with the First Lady saying, night with counter-demonstrators taimng democrattc education Democrattc education means Brok:i said when asked her opinion "I'm afraid that Mrs. Bush dissed occasionally interrupting discus an education for the people as opposed to an education that with this free speech campi' Well, I ask you. have you ever been silenced;~ Do you listen to the people of color women, on the situation, "Oh, I wouldn't us real bad." Mrs. Bush was not sion with claims that if they could reinforces dtvtsions of class, gender, race, and sexual prefer worry dear. He was probably only available for comment. no longer study in Honnold, they ence that separate our mstitution and our sodety High tu- physically challenged, gays, and lesb1ans m your classes when shrooming." Protesters met the news of Mrs. would have no excuse for not hav 1t1ons and cut backs on financial aid makes the accesstbtlity of they challenge the dominant parad1gms? When you speak, the college ltmited since tndtvtduals from lower classes and are you aware of your stakes and what you are about to gain However, this bizarre incident Bush's cancellation with jubilation ing a sex life. non·European hentage do not have the same opponunities to or lose by your statements? I don't think that I can go too far proved to be a sign of more library and announced their forming of a At 8:22 a.m., on Saturday, the prepare them for college both fmancially and academtcally. when my rights and the rights of others to free speech and controversy to come. group to counter the pro-library presidents announced that the an Our colleges sit in an area in which approximately 45% of education are threatened_ The next day, hundreds of stu PLUS (Project Literacy US) with ti-library group had their permis the populatton are people of color The amount of tenured ADVERTISEMENT dents gathered outside Honnold to their group MINUS (Me Is No Un sion to bomb Honnold. Jubilant professors of color and students of color on further protest the library week. derstanding Stuff Like Books) MI protesters immediately went to the campuses does not reflect the area St~dent after student spoke on NUS's leaders said the group's Price Savers to pick up some TNT, which we represent A curriculum that hardships encountered due to li main priority was to bring an end and further impressed college offi continues to make Women Studies, Asian brary accidents. Particularly vocal to all library violence. cials when they discovered that Studtes African-American Stud1es, Chi was a faction calling themselves MINUS got a major boost on the explosives were on sale in cele cano Studies, and Gay/Lesbian Studies op "The Survivors of Billy Budd". Wednesday when North Carolina bration of National Library Week. tiOnal courses is a curriculum that rein The tear-striken group told graph senator Jesse Helms appeared in a Anchorperson Dan Rather, who forces a power structure in which the •oth• ic stories of stress encountered poof of smoke, announcing he was had been covering the protest er· IS repeatedly marginalized. While new from being assigned to read endorsing the anti-library protest. since Wednesday said, "Devoted pools are bUilt and new administration of- Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Billy Helms said, "I came in answer to and budget conscious too!" fices are constructed, the colleges claim Budd. The group claimed the ex the prayers of a group of Pitzer The great blackened ho~ that they do not have any money for an Asian istence oflibraries will force others students. There are a lot of dirty was once Honnold Library has Stud1es Center. We have incredible re to go through the same trauma_ words in these books. Innocent since become a symbol of the inter sources at these colleges, but fail to dis Also featured was Pitzer litera tnbute them to the surrounding communi students might read the books and national anti-library movement. ties The gyms do not allow the surround ture professor Albert Wachtel. all mayhem would break loose. I -- Jenny Spitz ing communities to take pan m 1ts incredi When asked to comment on the would hate to see students reading releases ble eqwpment, while the ltbraries charge irony of a literature expert choos filthy pornography like Alice in The Other Side ilSelf h1gh fees for the use of its materials. ing an anti-library stance, Wachtel Wonderland. It's a well known from any responsibility as to tbe Agam it must be asked, whose mterests do stated, "Actually fm illiterate. All fact that Lewis Carroll was the an truthfulness or accuracy oftbis these colleges serve? I d1d not enroll in these years fve kept up the allu ti-Christ." Next, Helms clicked his account (i.e. this is a joke). college to help reproduce a system that ex- sion that I know how to read." heels together three times and '··· 18 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 The Other Side: April 23, 1991 • 19 rna, limited definitions of art, accepted tdeas for tioned, where value systems may be decon L...... __ Jr,) Surveying the the most efficient forms of government) by ap structed to reveal thetr ltmtted appeal to certam by plying them to the tests of reason, it proves lib distinct groups in soctety and where art not Chris erating to the individual. Havtng acknowl only concedes any sense of referentialtty be tt Postmodern Landcape edged the emancipatory effects of liberal, material or transcendental, but becomes com Davis democratic forms of government, modem con midified and reproducible for the mass econo e task of enumerating the charactens htstory: its writers (Eliot, Pound, Joyce, 'll .ns), ceptualizations of art, and scientifidmedtcal in my, the indivtdual is confronted by etther an I tcs of the (non) movement refered to as its phtlosophies (Hegeltamsm, Marxtsm. Demo quiry, the post-modem landscape emerges as abysmal nihilism or a Ntetzschean feelmg of postmodemism' is immediately under cratic liberalism) its artists (Monet, Van Gogh, those events once viewed as liberating expose emanctpation. For pragmatists ltke Richard I I mined by the assumptions such a task must Picasso) tts sctenttsts (Darwtn, Emstein, Go their limitations; as they reveal the degree to Rorty who have long since dismissed the beltef make before beginning its project. It presumes dard) Focusmg on the pervasive tnfluence of which their benefits are limited to certain in any overarching, metaphystcal conceptual comprehensive totality for that which is limit scientific rationaltty inherited from the Enltght groups of people based on concepts of race, ization of truth applicable to all cultures, ours is less; universally understood parameters cen enment, modernity becomes the narrative of class, sex, nationality, or sexual preference. To an era replete with the opportunity to establtsh c tered in linguisttc description for that which ltberation, manifesttng ttself in any activtty the positive, confident certitude of modem ra a greater sense of community with those with decenters tradition and nullifies constraints. which transcends tradtttonal boundaries. For J tionality, post-modernity responds negatively, whom one shares common beltefs, traditions, Making use of the thinkers, artists, and philoso contemporary thinkers like Jurgen Habermas at once critical and deconstructive. The En or tastes. It provides the opportuntty to cultt phies of modernity one may construct a totaliz who trace their thought to the influences of lightenment's contribution to modem thought vate local relationships, having jettisoned the ing vision of the the modem project embodied Kant and Marx, tt entails the htstorical progres has instilled the desire to organize and under idea of exporting ones belief system based on : in certain distinctive accomplishment, much sion leading humankmd from a world con stand the world based on logical, scientific in assumpttons of tts ideological superiority. But like the watchmaker uses his tools, artistry and strained by dogma and traditton into one open quiry; to generalize in the social and natural for individuals like Michel Foucault, postmod knowhow, to construct in the material realm to reason. Modernity is defined in a positivist sciences based on objectively obtained evi ernism's attack on the modem, entrenched 'nar ( dence. In view of the inevitable subJectivity of l that which first exists only in an imaginary sense, valorizing indivtdual accompltshment ratives of legittmation' amounts to an attack on sense. But when the tools prove faulty and the and intellectual advancement based on rational all inquiry and of the rejection of the inherent those instttuttons which have pnvtleged certatn internal springs explode from poor construc tty tendency to legitimate knowledge by arguing traditions and sustamed power in the hands tion, shattered fragments of the watch may be Allowing for thts worktng definitton of the that it can be acquired through a value-free in limtted groups. For Foucault, Rorty's resigned c hurled across the floor in endless patterns. Nei 'modem' establishes ground against whtch one quiry, the post-modern, in the words of Lmda ethnocentrism, does not provide any means by ther the rational which led to the notion of an may examine the cleavages post-modem cntt Nicholson, entails the ·abandonment of all gen which those who have been margtnaltzed ex instrument for measuring time, nor the mechan ctsm has introduced to the modem attempts to eralizations: cluded, or denied opportunity by htstory may ical principles on which the instrument was systematically arrange the world around us tn But it would be reductive to characterize the now empower themselves Other thtnkers have ) ; constructed, may be employed toward predict terms of logic and order Where concepts of postmodern critique as limited to accepted simply thrown up their arms, lamenttng the loss c ing or interpreting what the chaotic collapse of 'truth' were once venfied or legitimated by relt truths legitimated by scienttfic objectivity. of anything universally appltcable to talk about this modern symbol of order will look like gious doctrine, the church has now been forced Postmodem discourse has taken issue with what and questtoning whether the enttre debate may strewn in disarray. Such is the futility of the at to cede this privtlege to scientific method Jean-Francais Lyotard has titled the 'grand simply be dtsmtssed for tts ultimate fatlure to I tempt to ground some vision of postmodemism Once verified by universal sctenttftc proce metanarrative'- conceptualtzed as any theoreti lead humantty in any direction using the very systems, interpretations, or con dures, an idea assumes the status of 'true' by cal approach attempting to comprehensively Is post-modern cnticism stmply the latest tn cepts it calls into question. Is the postmodem passing certain repeatable tests provided these explain the course and tendency of history. So the tradttton of philosophical skeptiCism which simply the beneficiary of the conclusion of tests are performed objectively. As an immedt the postmodem assault lays siege to the enttre finds tts most articulate expression in the work modem developments in our politicaVeconom ate potnt of departure, post-modem dtscourse edifice of Western thought, constituted by of Davtd Hume? Having acknowledged that I idartistidcuhuraVetc. history;> Does it repre introduces skepticism toward the concept of Kanttan notions of transcendental truth, Marxi reality or essenttalism becomes tncreastngly dtf sent new possibilities for the emancipation of objecttvity on whtch modem sctence reltes for an vision of class conflict- driven historical pro ficult to identify tn a world of mechanically re I I the human spmt, grown restless wtth the demo tts legttimatton. An objective inquiry tnto any cess, or aesthetic interpretations of canonical producible art, television monttored \read· sant cratic conformity placed upon it by the pacify subJect is one ·immune to influences of poltttcs text, exposing the progressive as conservative, tized) wars, and resurgent local value systems ~ ing, pleasure-rich world embodied in capital or values: It is here perhaps, at thts umversal the liberating as totalizing, and the classical, as reappearing tn the decline of colomal impenal- ! ism? Or is it the bleak realization that any izing notion of objecttvtty which has assumed unjustifiably privileged. The postmodem crittc ism, one mtght even dtsmtss the skeptic for A philosophical/theoretical order attempting to for itself a supposedly neutral qualtty, that the would argue that all of these prescnbe to a uni having some agenda behtnd htslher pos1tton ~···.,...,. ~'1111..... , reduce mtsery in the world is doomed to be ei theorettcal attack of post-modern cnttctsm may versal notton that truth is essential; that while In short the pervasive existence of postmodern ther exclusive, reliant upon ethnocentric princi first be distinguished truth may or may not be tmmtnent in a gtven consequences from art and polttics to culture ples of freedom for legitimation, or as totalitari While modernity can generally be deftned htstorical subject, the purpose of phtlosophy or education, and tnterpersonal relattonshtps an in another form as that which proceeded it? positively in terms of certain tangtble pnnet SCtence remains to provide tools or cnteria ca leaves the even the skepttc overwhelmed by No essay on postmodemism and its implica ples, accomplishments, or advancements, the pable of discerning this essential truth But un his/her critical project. So when you realize tions for contemporary culture can hope to do postmodem deftes both comprehensive deftnt der the conditions of postmodernity where that your younger stbltngs are learntng any more than illuminate the debate surround tton and a citation of its contnbutions to cul artistic creation has ceased to refer to any sense Beethoven from a United Atrltnes commercial ing these issues, consistently returning to the ture. The modern era glonftes the subject (the of reality, where the material essence of every that the work of Da Vinet is only familiar to inconclusive realization that all conversatton arttst, the machine, the thinker,) for its radical thing from athletic contests to certain natural certam people because they've seen tt m an ad presumes that the broken pieces on the floor break from tradttion and tts romanttc testament ltfe forms can be reproduced by our state of ad for Maetntosh, when the revoluttonary •mage I I actually represent some describable order to the mdtvidual's capactty to advance hu vanced technology, and where scienttftc of elson Mandela can be reproduced on T rather than an image of the mefficacy of sus mankmd, the post-modem seeks to identtfy the progress, always construed as objectively favor shirts you can buy at Montclatr plaza, and the taining the very idea of order. criteria for glorification and to expose its ltmt able, has provided us with the threat of nuclear glorious •mages of the collapse of the Berltn extinction or environmental destruction, any CI::J The ascent of the modem era has generally tations and biases. The modem phenomenon ts Wall can be preserved and endlessly mvoked been accessible to a dtscurstve definitton. vtewed as progresstve, a step toward a htgher appeal to an essential truth, be it phtlosophtcal, for the purpose of selltng everything from copy Equated most often with the urbantzing, mech level of human organtzatton or accompltsh practical, or ethicalts disputable. machines to tnsurance compa01es tt becomes aniztng, and technological transformations of ment In the sense that modernity has freed the Having painted a picture where the ultimate far more dtfftcult to dtsmtss post-modem criti the mdustnal revolution, modernity tS also con mdivtdual from cenatn constramts placed upon benefidence of any scientific axiom once legiti cism as a passing phenomenon ceptualtzed by its contributions to culture and hun/her by htstoncal tradttton ( reltgious dog- mated by its performative ability can be ques- 20 ... The{;)ther Side: April 23, 1991 The Other Side: April 23, 1991 • 21 ..Postnwdemism is thus a grisly parody ofsocialist utopia, hav crossed the AtJantic Ocean and became fashion cultural logic of late capttallsm m contradtstJnc able in Amencan academia for approximately tion to the neo-conservat1ve mtellectual efforts ing abolished all alienation at a stroke. By raising alienation to twenty-years (from 1966, the date of the famous of structuraltsm, poststructuraltsm and decon the second power, alienating us even from our ou)n alienation, it John Hopkins University conference on French structionism/ theories, to I 987, the date of the downfall of Jameson rewntes or proposes a reading of persuades to recognize that utopia not as some remote telos but, Paul de Main, the late brilliant Yale University postmodernism wh1ch is fundamentally a histor amazingly, as nothing less than the present itself ...... , deconstructionist). In the context of the demise ical one rather than merely styhst1c, 10 that for of these anti-historicisms and the emergence of him postmodernism is a cultural dom1nant -Terry Eagleton, "Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodemism" New Historicism, Marxism, which is pre-emi which expresses the culturallogte of late capital s Marx1sm in our time truly a dead dog, Simi cultural totality of our time. Hence the mutual nently a historicism, has renewed its historical ism (hence. postmodemism is not JUSt a style lar to how the young Marx considered historical attract1on between postmodernism project of theorizing the present (postmod among others, but rather, 1t is a dominant wh1ch IHegelianism in the early pan of the nine and Marxism. emism) as history. In this task Marxism is a the is also a hegemonic cultural condition). In fact, teenth-century, the very Hegelian system Postmodernism, an American phenomenon I I ory of history as well as being a history of theo Jameson goes even further to argue that post· which the young Georg Lukacs resurrected in par excellence, is a cultural process or cultural ry. modermsm in actuality is the express1on of order to re-animate and re-invigorate Marx1sm log1c of creativity, which announced 1ts histori It is in the writings of Fredric Jameson that we American militansm or hegemony in the world in the early pan of the twentieth-century? Does cal arrival in the field of arch1tecture, and has encounter the most remarkable and exhilarating today. W1th such a conceptualization, Jameson the collapse of 'actually existing socialism' in subsequently mhabited practically all the artis Marxist theorizing on postmodemism, our con situates postmodernism tn a stage of h1stoncal Eastern Europe in 1989, and in the Soviet tic spheres from literature through dance and temporary cultural condition, as history. Jame progression from the RomantiC era to the pre Union being merely a matter of time, necessari paint10g to film. One of the pnnopal a1ms of son belongs to the intellectual trad1tion of sent: if real1sm was the cultural dommant of m ly and invariably bring in 1ts wake the demise postmodem1sm, or perhaps one should say one Hegelian Marxism (largely German Marxism) dustnal capitalism in the middle of the nine of Marxism? What is the relationship between of 1ts quests, is the elimination of the h1stoncal which draws its inspiration from Georg Lukacs's teenth-century • if modern1sm represented the politics and culture withiO the context of the space between h1gh culture and popular culture book of 1923, History tmd Class ConsciOILS"tss. In a cuJtural hegemony of monopoly cap1tal1sm in fact that scientific socialism as lived expenence (an impossible endeavour 10 class societies des F t series of three books, Po5tmodcmism. or. The Cultur the early part of the twentieth-century, then t al Logic of l.Ait Capitalism. Sig"alluts of tbt Visiblt, and definitely postmodernism IS the authentiC cul emerged during the moment of modem1sm 10 tined to fail), by rendering inoperative thecate the early pan of our century and 1s 10 the pro gories of originality and newness 10 art1suc cre lAte Marxism: Adcmto. or. Tbt Ptrsistmcc of tbt Dialtc tural dommant of multtnauonal cap1tahsm (late cess of collapsing during the cultural hegemony ativity, the very two self-conSCIOUS preoccupa tic, all three published between June and cap1taltsm). It 1S because of th1s part1cular formu of postmodemism 10 the late twentieth-centu tions and ach1evements of modern1sm November of last year, Fredric Jameson theo lation of postmod.emism that Jameson has been rizes postmodemism not so much as a part1rular charged with essentialism, a mis-representation ry? Why are the events of the last two years in It is perhaps logical that postmodern1~m x 1 representation of history, as much as a concept or contraction of a complex phenomenon to its dicating again and again that Germany, howev should have emerged in the United States of r er positively or negatively we may regard this America as IS the case, given that modern1sm of the dialectical history of representation with supposed one true singular determinant or historical fact, is the key country in European term10ated its cultural logtc tn this country 10 in the postmodem. The differential character of essence. Th1s contentious issue of essenualtsm history, 1f not in world history? Why is 1989 a the 1950s in the great Abstract Expressionism the latter formulation is in line with Immanuel constitutes one of the liveliest debates w1thm direct consequence of the suppression of the of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock W1llem de ( Kant's salutary warning of the dangers present m postmodernism on postmodermsm Gennan Revolution of 1918-1919, which re Kooning and others. After the French May l conflating an object of knowledge with the ac For Jameson then, postmodern1sm IS cultural sulted 1n the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg events of 1968 and the Vietnamese Tet Offen tuality of the object itself in reality. Jameson expression of the commocLf1cat1on (commeroal perhaps the most 1nternauonalist of all the sive of February 1968 the cultural log1c of constantly reminds us that his concept of post •zauon) of culture and Its cultural products wnh great ,..,1arxist political philosophers? postmodernism slowly replaces that of mod ) modernism is an abstraction and a construction in multinational (late) cap1tahsm Postmod Although no direct response will be attempt ernism. While postmodermsm was slowly c which IS not reducible to the actuality of post em1sm, m other words, is the cultural express1on ed 10 the face of the challenge of these ques emerging in America, post- 1968 Marxtsm modernism in history. of a cris1s due to the d1sjuncture between the tions, smce they are beyond the competence wh1ch had occupted the highest intellectual Though all these three books are preoccup1ed phenomenological expenence of the md1v1dual and capab1lity of this author, they nevertheless plane in France since 1945 was in the process With postmodernism in one way or another, subject and the econom1c (soc1al , structures that are part of the central problematics of the di of be10g defeated m that country Th1s defeat \, they are pitched on different reg1sters: lAte totaltze life. It could be said that postmodem1sm alectical relationship between the cultural pro of Marxism, which can largely be attnbuted to [ I Marxism is princ1pally an examination of the 1s the principal symptom of the 1llness that is cess of postmodernism and the political prac the horrendous domgs of Stal1msm, subse tr-•••111••··~ Marx1st mstrumentarium as a state-of-the-an overcoming late capitalism The constitutive tice of Marxism (hence addressed obliquely). quently led to Its expuls10n from European m t within postmodemity as exempified by the writ features or charactenstics of th1s cultural logic These senes of questions indicate that the rela tellectual forums In 1ts ~tead there emerged ings of Theodor Adorno, or, it can be seen as an are mdtcative of this h1stoncal cnsis the emer ttonshlp between postmodemism and Marx1sm French postmodemist theories of structuraltsm ideological cntique of the epidem1c of post gence of depthlessness and the weakenmg of in analyt1cal appraisal should be governed by poststructuralism and deconstructiOn ( respec Marx1sms so prevalent in our time; SigMturrs of historicity due to the attempted abot.uon of the categories, concepts, systems and structures tively Roland Barthes M1chel Foucault and tbt V1siblt is an anempted periodization of the dist1nct1on between appearance and essence, the wh1ch forge a historical dynamic periodlza Jacques Demda,. To a large extent these post cultural structures of realism , modernism and appearance of s1mulacra (sh10y or glossy sur tion, cultural history, cultural formations, soc1al modernist theone~ are ph1losophies of n1hilism postmodemism as a historical Untty 10 f1Jm dtS faces) m painting and 1n fdm because of the systems, and pol1t1cal pracuces. These cate modelled after Friedrich 'ietzsche and ~lanm COUrse, or, It can be seen as an explanation of weakening of content tn relatton to fom1, the gories and concepts as explanatory systems cut He1degger. In the context of the hegemony of why video is the true art form of postmod disappearance of historical concepts in post across various scholarly disciplines, and 1n the these anti-h1stoncisms and Ntetzschea sms ac emism; and PostmodmriSlll maps the cultural geog modermst theones- the canmbal1zat1on of artis process form a totaliZing vision One of the tive forgetting of history'), the great Old ,\!an raphy of postmodernism from a Marx1st per tic styles rather than the1r synthesiS wlthm a great totaltzing visions is Marxism wh1ch IS a Jean-Paul Sanre who had been constructmg spective. W1th this trilogy Fredric Jameson has pan1cular perspective. the appearance of pas synthesis of English classical political economy, Existential Marx1sm dtes 10 1980 m a state of defined for himself a premier position within an tiche (a blank parody or 1m1tauon through a French utop1an socialism and Gem1an Idealistic confusion, renouncing Marxism and embracmg ) international Marxist culture, if this was not al dead language) as a mode of artiStiC representa (ObJective) philosophy. Marxism is an Intellec anarch1sm ready apparent with The Polttical Ur~consciows in tion; the articulation of nostalgia m oppositton tual system, an outcome of the best that has Upon 1ts expuls1on from Europe, IOtellectual 1980, or w1th the two volumes of essays, Tbt ldt to historicity as a mode of recollectton or re been thought w1thin Western C1v1ltzauon from Marx1sm transmigrated to the Unned States ologirs ofThtory, in 1988. tneval of history, the transfonnauon of opposi the Rena1ssance through the Enlightenment to and re-vnalised itself in the 1magmauon oi What then are the contours of postmodernism tional features into decorat1ve ones, the empha the present It explains obJectS and processes 1n Frednc Jameson Unfonunatelr ns pursuers that Fredric Jameson proposes in Postmod sis on fragmentation and d1ffcrentiatton over their totaltty Postmodernism is the one true (poststructuraltsm and deconstructtontsm' also r I ermsm? How does Marx1sm problematize the See t"tARXISM, page 27 22 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 ' The Other Side: April 23, 1991 • 23 Third World Women's Receipts and Ecology: Weekend Ruminations on Post-Modernism in the Academy Alternative Radio: Lourdes Arguelles, Professorof\Vomen!Chicano Studies Marketing A Postrrwdem Ideal NooN FRIDAY: system, a very different system from that of industnaJ BY WHIT PRESTON take a lunch break sandwiched between the weekly mass productiOn, a system more fragmented and more ~sis of identity seemingly plagues many, as so believe that they represent a new type of indiVidual or IFaculty Executive Committee meetmg, student ap plural Ciety becomes more and more diSJOinted and rebel, that their musical tastes (which are represented pointments and a lengthy meeting with the candi More eastfy stated than accomplished, th1s latter Afragmented, as people move farther from any also in the way they dress) constitute an alternat1ve dates for the Dean of Faculty pos1t1on. I go to task requires both subJeCtive and ob1ect1ve under homogeneous set of norms or values, and as the influ mindset. This IS made most evident by the 30 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 The Other Side: April23, 1991 • 31 the Roy•ls w;ll edse out the A's" Wvision ch•mps.• chronic bock problems Donny is the heon •nd soul of CONTINUATIONS Look for hobbled designated hitter Kirk Gibson to pro- the Yanks and as he goes, sod? the Bombers. R?berto ••• duce and to supply the Royals with an emotional lift, which Kelly, who maybe the best defensive ceRsnterfndlelhder lin thde dally those that obstruct traffic. 10 Campus Security This would help 1 'h d league had a power surge last year ( 15 H ) a as a rea Y • A student can certainly get the eliminate the mconsistency and mcqwtv on Y e can fa r ~assed previous expectations ( 285 BA, 61 RBis and 41 PARKING ° phone number of that vehicle's owner of enforcement. . WHITE Sox . SBs). Lefty slugger Kevin Mass (11 HRs m 154 AB) gave Yan- and contact them; they can let them In the future, Phase Two of the alter The young and talented Sox, who are s~ortmg ~ew snapp~ kee fans something to cheer about last year and should con from page 10 know that if they don't remove their car native parking program hopes to pro un1forms, are a year or two away fr~m bemg considered sen- tinue to find success in Yankees Stadium with its short right they will be towed• vide designated spaces for do rm rest ous contenders. The Sox, who surpnse~ everyone last year by field porch. The brightest star in pinstrips is 23 year old Vicke Selk, Officer of the College in dents. gtVing the A's all they could handle _ ~ul th~ last month of ~he Hensley ·sam Bam" Meulens. "Bam Bam", who was lost earlier gram, under the auspices of Security People need to be hired specificaUy for charge of Business and Financial Affairs, • At first the reg1stratton stickers w11l season when they faded into o?IIVIOO, ~~~11 come c~shmg in his minor league career at third base, may have found a down to earth in 1991. The starting staff IS young. and lmma- home in right-field. He and left-fielder Jesse Barfield will patrolling the parkmg lots before there is also one of the staff representatives of apply to particular lots. accord 1ng to will be any drastic changes." At this time the Environmental Concerns Commit where the student res1des ' says ~e k ture, but showed flashes of brilliance last year. You~gsters strike out a lot, but should give the Yankees a bundle of "Part of the plan for next year w II an· Jack McDowell and Melido Pere~ showed great promise ~ dingers. The Yankees still are without a legitimate number it is up to each school to hire "reserve· tee, whose rub-group, the Auto Task officers, as it is not currently in Securi Force, is in the process of designing an elude two regiStration rates People who lacked consistency. The bullpen IS anchored by Bo?t>y Thlg- one starter and closer (they lost Dave Righetti through free pen, who recorded a r~~rd 57 saves last year. 1lugpen was agency). Starters Mike Win, Scott Sanderson and Tim Leary ty's budget. •alternative parking program" that will want to pay less and park further away, hopefully be implemented next at the East Mesa lot for 1nstance, w11l brilliant m 1990 and I.mtted_baners to_a .195 BA. Catcher should keep the Yankees in the game long enough for their Robinson adds that CMC and Scripps Carlton Fisk continued to bUild_cre~ent1als for Copperstown, young and powerful offense to produce runs and more fre have helped deter the problem of illegal semester. have that econom1c al o ption, whtle parking by implementing the Denver Aimed at promoting the environmen those interested m parktng nearer w1ll while Charlie Hough was acqUired tn the o~f-season 10 ~r~er quent wins. The Bombers will win more games this year, to giVe the Sox some more veteran leadershtp. The additiOn which should not be too difficult. But how many depends on Boot, a device that is anached to the ve tal improvement in air quality, the Auto pay a shghtly h1gher fee for the conve of Cory Snyder should give Chicago some much needed their young pitchers such as 14 year old Dave Eiland (16-5 in hicle upon receipt of three violations, Task Force was initially established w1th nience.· punch ( no one on the Sox had more tha~ 18 H~) . If the AAA last year) and the "Bam Bam Man" {International Player that completely immobilizes the car. the intent to lessen the number of vehi Eventually, sa)•S Sclk, the Auto Ta,'· "It $60 youth movement (Sammy Sosa, Ozzle Guillen, Robm Yen~- of the Year in the mmors last year). costs students to have the boot cles used for getting to campus, as well Force would ltke to provide dcs1gnated ra and Frank Thomas) matures at a rapid pace, than the Wh1te removed, which wtll not be done until as the number of vehicles used for trans spaces for each md1v1 dual student or Sox will win a bundle of games. Unfortunately, thts is unhke· BOSTON they come to the Campus Security of portation between campuses. faculty member The maJority of stu· 1 . Look for Tim Ratnes to run and h1t like the old Time Rocket Rodger Cleme~ di~ it all for the Sox last year (11-6 fice and pay their past fines • Agatn, 1t is "The Auto Task Force is currently at dents asked agreed that they would pay y . d f h. t M y p type numL-- and a 1 98 ERA) but he 1s gomg .to have to do even more as a up to the particular campuses to imple work on a proposal for managing park a higher fee 1f 1t would mean they'd re Ra mes an or 1m to pu up . . 1.x:n. · ' . d. k Th result of the loss of 17 game wmner M1ke Bod IC er. e ment this device. ing and vehicles," explains Selk. ceive a destgnated space A.L EAST "Rocket Man" may be the best pitcher in the game, but his W1th regard for those mistreated by Phase One of the new plan will in In the meantime, Selk and Robtn~on supporting cast is thin. Man Young, who is 32, IS the prOJeCt Secunty Off1cers on the telephone, volve increasing the fee for on-campus both re1terate the fact that student re· TORONTO ed number three starter desptte hts 18 losses for Seanle last The Blue Jays appear to be the best of the worst in the weak Robinson apologizes, claiming, "That's parking. It will include, additionally, a sponse to any proposals IS 1mportant year. Veteran Danny Darwin, who came over from Houston, A.L East. The Jay's staff is still anchored by veteran Dave not the treatment students deserve.· She fee for faculty and staff, something that That these commtttees are here to serve went 11-4last year with a sparkling 2.21 ERA. Unfortunately, Ste•b who was never better than in 1990. Steib held batters suggests that no matter how insignifi has never bttn imposed in the past. the student body ftrst and foremost. 1nd the Sox may have grabbed Darwin, who had a career year last to a ~inute .130 batttng average and was JUSt basically impos cant one might think it is, 1t's very im "'This would accomplish a number of that input from students wtll help SO(:td year at 35, too late. Veteran stopper Jeff Reardon (35) was sible to hit last year at times. Jimmy Key hopes to have a portant to call and have a record made things,· explains Selk. "It would allow the process of build1ng a new and Im hindered by injuries last year and has lost some speed on his healthy 91' campaign, wh1le number three starter Todd Stot of all mcidences of illegal parking espe- for the needed funds to increase staffing proved parktng system. once blazing fastball. While the pitching is suspeCt (except tlemyre appears ready to finally live up to his potential and for Clemens) the Sox's hitting is mcredibly strong. Rookie have that elusive sensational season. Tom Henke remains the Mo Vaughn, who is six foot two and two hundred and twenty positive features. In the same way that •go to man in the pen after rackmg up 32 saves and holding pounds, should see a lot of action this year after tearing up MARXISM Marx in the Com1111misl Ma"ifrsto con opponents to an incredible .213 BA. The loss of produCtive FC>R S A.LE AAA (.295 BA, 22 HRs and 72 RBis). The outfield is one of demned capitalism as being simultane George Bell (whose abrasive attitude finally pushed Blue Jay the most potent in baseball. Tom Brunansky, Ellis Burks and ously progress1ve and regressive (pos management to dump h1m) will hurt, but his replacements from page 27 fUTON Mike Greenwell give the Sox the pop they need and should sessing within itself barbaric qualities Devon White and Joe Carter) should more then pick up the see their numbers increase after a sub-par 91' campaign. and dvilizing features), likewise, Jame slack. Whtte is a silky smooth defensive outfielder (unlike all-wood frame Wade Boggs, who is coming off the worst season of his career, Although Marxism denounces post son in Postmodmism cartographs the Biln \\ h1 le Caner IS a consistent run producer (he has aver is the key to the Sox's hopes and dreams. He failed to get 200 modernism as being in complictty with progressive and regressive constitutive aged 29 HRs and 109 RBis over the last 5 years). Third base hits for the first time in eight years and needs to pull the ball late capitalism (not in active opposi forms of the cultural dominant of late men Kelly Gruber had an MVP type of year at the plate last $350 more often to be successful. Boggs may be slowmg down at tiOn to it as was the case with mod capitalism. Marxism theorizes this di year 275 BA, 31 HRs, 118 RBis and 14 SBs) and his Gold 32 but he still is the best pure hitter in the game If the1r ernism v1s-a-vis monopoly capitaltsm alectical unity 10 an extraordinanly Glove was icing on the cake. The Jays, always a talent rich Call Liz a t 6032 pi;ching comes through, the Sox w1ll be nght tn the th1ck of see the wr1tings of the German Marxist brilliant pattern. But the true challenge team, have consistently underach1eved. Their change in l.terary scholar, Peter Burger), it does the A.L East race to Marx1sm in our time is not the ques chemistry (they lost Bell and Tony Fernandez and gamed not completely condemn, for not only tion of postmodemism, but rather, the RE/v\Eiv\BER Wh1te Carter and Roberto Alomar) was much needed. is this cultural logic a necessity of con historical events of 1989 which have Young and talented players such as Alomar and Olerud will PREDICTIO NS temporary capitalism, but also because been historic in a very profound way. STUDENT g1ve the Jays a new duect1on and maybe a World Series invi- postmodernism embodies certam posi Either historical matenalism must meet tattoo NL East: Chicago Cubs tive qualittes (the return of narrattve th1s challenge by developing a Marxist SENATE lineanty after the complex convolu Y.A.'lKEES NL West: Cincinnati Reds theory of the present h1storical cnsis, The rest of the A.L. "Least'' is up for grabs. So much so that tions of modernism, and the attempted or it is finished as the only authentic ELECTIONS even the Bronx Bombers could finish second. The Yanks h1t AL East: Toronto Blue Jays abolishing of the historical space be theory of history What is needed is a bottom last year (their worst year since 1912), but thankfully AL West: Kansas City Royals tween high culture and popular cul Marxtsm of Marxism rather than a 5/1 & 5/2 thetr IS ltght at the end of the tunnel. The Bombers are al ture). In other words, postmodernism Marx1st theory of the postmodern. ready better then they were last year with a healthy Don Mat World Series: Cubs vs Royals IS the dialeettcal un1ty of negative and VOTE tingly Matttngly has a lot to prove and is dying to qu1te his The Champs: Cubs cntics, who say h1s career IS bemg prematurely cut short by The Other Side: April 23, 1991 • 33 32 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 THE Peace: In Whose Time and At What Price? f justice IS as Anstotle once put 1t, tous massacre whach will be spoken the Sanai Pentnsula-temtory Israel •not necessary among friends," of like the Mongolian massacres and acquared in the 1967 war The Smat, I then peace must be understood as the Crusades: Though six thousand however, 1s not the West Bank an impossibility amongst enemies. Israelis died in that war, and Jordan Yieldmg the West Bank would ex Nowhere is the realization of a just se1zed the West Bank, the Arab na pose Israel's vulnerability to the peace more necessary than in the tions were defeated. threat of increased terror and mil. Middle East. However, nowhere Though the Arabs waged war tary attacks and its border would does an unjust peace presage more again in 1956, to their defeat once shnnk to a mere nine to fourteen danger to an area as volatile as the again, the issue of a Palestinian state miles in width. Furthermore, there Middle East, either. In searching for was never raised. Again, a war is every reason to believe that a a peace plan, Secretary of State waged by the Arab nations took Palestmian state there, given the pre - James Baker must keep these and a place against Israel in 1967 where sent leadershtp, would be akin to the OF THE GREAT POWERS: by few other lessons in mind. four days before the President of creation of another Iran, Libya or Andrew Starbin As Baker travels through that re Iraq, in sentiments that echoed those Iraq At a recent Palestinian demon More Constructive Suggestions and giOn he and his State Department of Egypt and the other active Arab stration in the West Bank, the Arabs need to extend their memories back participants said, lne existence of marched to the slogan, "We are w1th For The American Sports Scene John Stewart funher than just the days that imme Israel as an error which must be recti you Saddam Arafat, give us guns diately preceded the Iraqi invasion of fied. This is our opportunity to wipe and machine guns and we wall re· Kuwait and, moreover, further than out the ignommy which has been deem you Saddam in spirit and rts are in a state of decline in America. We have inept leadership 10 the various leagu~ fr~nt offices, a~d consequentlr the days that witnessed the begm. w1th us since 1948. Our goal is blood: With thts as background, 1t :r pre-emiOent athletes are signing contracts 10 Canada, japan, and Italy Ra_ghlb ls~all Willi p~b~lydlf" ~~d Tor:t~ nings of the Palestinian uprisings in dear-to wipe Israel off the map • As a too must be remembered that Egypt's A nauts and other would-be notables will follow suit. Do we care about th1s calam1ty? ':'lo, t c. I cr r .c ~ Israel and its territories. While result of Israel's victory an that war, Anwar Sadat, for making h1s compro Sfilled! ~ Kidding. We have drawn up another list of "'helpful hints" (seeing how well our last last was receaved), thiS time fo- much of the State Department's ef the West Bank was taken from Jor mise--recognizing Israel- suffered cusing on the world of professional sportS Here you go: fortS to seek a Middle Eastern peace dan and has since been administered from the very fate outlmed by Yassar J Nets cheerleaders sponsored by the Campbell's Soup Company, should shock the sportmg world (and 1 plan involve a sincere desire for such by Israel. Arafat when, m 1979, he sa1d, 'Sadat ) ~:7aC:) ;;;~ergmg from a gian~ bowl of Clam Chowder, followmg which they wall challenge the Nets to some 5 on 5 a peace, its view that the Israeli It is important to remember that should understand that he will be 2) If fighting is going to continue 10 the National Hockey League, all bouts must be sanctioned by the WBC Don Kmg must Palestinian dispute (where Palestini Jordan is and was over seventy per struck down It is has destiny. Any be mvolved 10 all forms of profess10nal boxmg. ans and their Arab neighbors seek cent Palestin1an and that the Pales one who betrays the Palesttnaan peo 3 There should be a new, sweepang drug policy in all sports· The Darryl Gates "Casual Users Must be Shm" system would their "self-determination") is central tinian Liberation Organazation, to ple will be struck down · to the larger Israeli-Arab dispute is day headed by Yassir Arafat, was These are the thmgs that Secretary make sagnificant headway. errantly founded. In fact the reverse founded in 1964. Since the West Baker need remember. Peace be· 4 1 Stad1ums should not be allowed to serve sushi or imported beer. is true: The conflict between Israel Bank was to be a Palestanian home tween the Arab world and Israel 5 Players should be allowed to bring their favorite pets mto the locker-room Accordang to Mel Hall of the New York Yan and the Palestinians is an offshoot of land in 1948 and the Arabs went to should first begin wnh the Arab kees the smell of ammonia really fares the team up before a btg game the larger state of belligerency be war against Israel in 1948, since the world's recogmtlon of Israel Any ) Anyttme the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL fall more than 3 games below .500, they should be officially referred to as tween Israel and its Arab ne1ghbors Arabs had the West Bank in 1956 thing less would be both a nonse 6 and they went to war against Israel an "lambs • S10ce Israel's creation as a state m quitur and a turn back to the previ 1956; since the Arabs had the West ?) There should be a lot more 2-sport players. The next logical candidate is basketball star Charles BarkJey Lord Charles 1948, four major wars have been ous war threatening status quo ante. waged against it by its Arab neigh Bank in 1964 and the PLO was With the Anwar Sadats of the Mid would love playing baseball, where he could spit on anything and anybody he l1ked. bors. None of these wars were formed in 1964 with the commit dle East being tn the minonty and Eu h · t rs This is. after all 8) The World League of American Football should have more than four ropeans on t e1r respectave rose waged on behalf of the Palestinians. ment to destroy "the Zionast entity", the Yasm Arafats the maJority the the world league and not the "league of American scrubs." Rather, they were started by the and since the Arabs had the West path to peace tn the Mtddle East rna)• 9) Professional football coaches, in light of the Mike Ditka and Dan Reeves tragedies, should be forced to obey a 3 heart-at Arab nations out of a hatred for a Bank an 1967 and they attempted to have to yaeld to the laws of survaval tack rule. Good men deserve a better fate than to die under a flood of gator-atd Jewish presence in that area. If that destroy Israel in 1967, it becomes That IS, unttl clear and commttted IO)A George Allen rule must be instated, due to the fact that Allen's untimely death was ~recip1tated by celebrat_mg rlayers were not so, there would be l1ttle ex obvtous that the obstacle to peace an Arab nations recognaze Israel-the Players who pour tee-cold liqu1d on the1r coaches, wh1ch results in fatal pneumoma, wtll be subJect to mvo untary planation for the wars of 1948, 1956 the Middle East IS not that Israel to United Sates· only reltable strateg•c day possesses the West Bank. Rather, ally an the region and that reg1on's manslaughter charges. and 1967. The 1947 U.N . Partition plan called for a Palestinian state not the obstacle to the Arab nations as only democracy-temtonal conces 1 1 A referee should not have the power to toss a mascot out of a game only on the West Bank and Gaza but that there is an Israel. Even today, Sions foisted upon Israel by the State 12 Some sort of limit should be placed on the number of product endorsements players and announcers can engage in. ~tve m other parts of present day Israel as only one out of the 22 Arab coun Department would only condemn Is heard John Madden scream at me once too often, and Andre Agasst should try to wm at least one maJOr tournament ore well. The Israelis accepted that plan, tries recognizes Israel's nght to exast rael to the fate of 1938 Czechoslo h1s retirement but the Arabs rejected it and five and has renounced its state of war vakia And James Baker needs to re l3)The NFL should a) allow players to celebrate in the endzone, let alone the sideline, b) get rid of the instant replay, and c ) Arab armies invaded Israel 1n 1948 Egypt. member that Czechoslovakia's do away with the •10 the grasp" rule Football should be allowed to become a game once agatn. wath the statement by the then Sec For those that believe an land for demase was pa1d for by her allies an retary General of the Arab League peace, Egypt must be an example the name of ·self-determmat•on W'tll any of our changes be anstalled? We can't even tell1f our articles are goang to bepnnted On.e thmg thtt we ~re ~t~ Azzam Pasha that, 'This will be a By recognizmg Israel and renounc10g ~ure of IS thiS our commitment to bnng you the finest sports artteles typed at the last mtnute as undying Unta next assue 1 • war of extermmation and a momen- tts state of war, Egypt gamed back hastal The Other Side: April23, 1991 • 35 34 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 THE fLEXIBL E VOICE ~'It is time that government officials acknowledge that they cannot speak f or the common interests of the American people in regards to art., Making Cents of the Art this new process of censorship in tendencies goes against the freedom of s1on than one's own allows the md1vadu evitably ensures is a trend toward a less expression for that port1on of society. by Brett Speer diverse selection of art where the multi al to gam a better understandmg of his We should either allow all art to be own beltefs wnhm SOCiety As the indi ple interests of society will no longer be funded according to the quality rather s the American people continue w1thout allowing room for pubt.c re all-encompassing opinion of art1sttc vidual becomes exposed to a larger van adequately represented. The creative than content of the art, or should entire to be confronted w1th issues of sponse to such censorship Regret quahty ex1sts. Instead, what appears ap alton in artiStic expression there gener process will slow down as government ly do away with public funding of the censorship they lack the infonna- tably, the Bush admmistration has se pealmg to one tndtvidual might be con ates a greater acceptance to dtvergmg A regulation of the arts stifles freedom of arts. There is absolutely no mtddle tlon necessary to understand the broad- cured a way to do just this -the restruc sidered obscene to another. For this expression. interests away from his/her own. There ground to this 1ssue. Placmg exceptions er implications involved. With each turing of the National Endowment for reason we can not attach ltmits to artis fore, allowing more d1vcrse art to flour Because we are not a homogeneous on expression will inevitably disqualify tiC content By doing so we are disqual ISh withm the art communtty gtves wav passmg controversy the government has the Arts. If installed, this new approach society with a common ideology and some portion of society. ifying indiv1dual mterests An example for greater acceptance to dtfferences i~ mcreased its control over the future towards art funding w1ll allow the gov b~li~f system, any form of censorship Diversity within the arts is the content of art, thus restricting the art1st's ernment to comfortably mold the future of this argument extsts in the artistic 1deology and morality throughout soo wtthm the arts will remain unacceptable. essence to American culture There 1s a content of the photography of Robert ety. Rather than focustng so much on right to freedom of express1on. In order content of American artistic expression The controversy here remains- people great deal to gain from exposure to a di ~lapleth o rpe exhib1ted at the Contem the negative effects in the dtversny oi to elimmate public disagreement over Presently, all art is funded regardless of do not want to fund art which goes versity in interests. Viewing a ptece of porary Art Center in CinCinnati. Al expression wtthm art, it is 1mportant artistic subject matter, the government content. However, if these measures against their own moral beliefs. How art does not suggest that you need to has taken on the job of defining for the pass the NEA will be able to disallow though the exhibit included a large vari that the Amencan people reverse th1s ever, consider the other side of the is identify with its content. Rather, by ob Amencan people what content qualifies funding of works that exhibit "obscene• ation in subject matter, the area that re cycle and celebrate the freedom to ex sue- banning art displaying homosexual serving a different approach to expres- as ·acceptable" art. The problem here is or "unacceptable" subject matter. The ceived the most atteohon was the ho press one's own right. that government's definition of art does government will provide itself room mo-erotic images, One photograph dis tion that have followed therefrom. not hold true for all people within soci- w1thin these unspecific defmit10ns of played a man urinat1ng into another MARGINS them We ponder how even fewer have ety. There is absolutely no way in ·obscene· and ·unacceptable• so that it man·s mouth. Without any delay these SATURDAY PM: pomted out that the elements of natun: which our government can incorporate can stretch their meaning to ·include all 1mages were immediately brought to the I leave West Hollywood and head that the dominant v1ew has treated as all mdividual tastes when assessmg art. variations in content. The government government's attention allowing offidals from page 24 East, thinking myself lucky that there ·waste" are the basis of sustainab1lity and Thus, no fonn of censorship should ex- will ultimately decide for the American to label such art as "obscene", and in are only two or three bottlenecks on the the wealth of many of these women ry ist within the arts when referring to people what coment is ~ppropri ate lor consistent with pubhc interest. Yet, by ger and vulnerability (F. Jameson, Post freeway. As I drive home, I keep re Sh1va, Staytng All\'e 1989 No an both rights to exhibition and access to funding. labeling this art as such entirely disqual modernism). The passive acceptance of hearsing strategies on how to live in a swers government funding. The government hopes .to step in and ified the opinion of many in society destruction and fragmentation, the more ecologically responsible and re SUNDAY PM: Wtth the creation of the National En- enact an ·:tntirely new form ·of censor who found such art as descent and of equation of nature with agriculture, sponsive way. I dream of the wild. I ask I have prom1sed The Otha Side a short dowment for The Arts in 1965, our gov- ship. Disappointed ·with previous at high quality. The images portrayed in peasantness, and primitiveness, and an my partner why in all the talk about Maplethorpe's photography exemphf1ed article for the Postmodernism •ssue ernment established its leadership role temptsat c-e:ns'orship, the Bush Admmls emphasis on human concerns are 1ndeed postmodem ident1t1es and multicultural the sexual practtce of a portion of soci Well th1s IS tt ... my fragmented post as art became redefined as a public -~d .·. tration has intioduced an entirely new the hallmarks of much postmodern ISm in the academy few, including my ety, and therefore represented an enJOY modern thoughts these last few days on using tax payers' money to fund littistlc • 'approach to c~troll ing artistic content. rhetoric, a rhetoric which reinforces self, have alluded to the challenges expression. It became the EA'$· re- ,._ By restructuring the NEA commission, able reality for some Is it fair to dis some of my dtfficult1es w1th postmodern rather than challenges traditional West Third World women have posed to the qualify marginal interests when pladng discourses as they relate two 1ssues sponsibility to conSider the interest$ of ·. t~e government will be able to work em notions of the identity of femaleness concepts of waste, rubbish, and dispens assumptions on societal taste in arn ecology and SOCial act1on. I hope th1s the American peopf~. w~He granting from within the artist framework, rather with nature and the patterns of exploita- ability as the modern West has defined artists fundiog. Somehow the commis~ than reaching the artist aher the works People w1th these preferences pay their will do. sion saw it possible to define for all indi- are complete. Rather than censoring share in taxes, and should therefore be v1duals what constituted a'eceptcible and the artiSt followmg the creatiVe process constdered when the government de tasteful an. Controversial art which the government's new scheme will allow fines what IS · acceptable" in art. Placing went against the mainstream was con- officials to threaten the creator before such lim1ts on art wtll inevitably dis count someone's opinion. S. P.E. s1dered ·unsafe~. fo"r funding assuming it he/she sits down to produce a work. did not adequately represent the com- This new approach introduced by our This new approach to censorship is mon interests of the American people. present government is ohen referred to far more threatening then any previous It IS time that government officials ac- as "self-censorship" where the artist will attempts because the process is invisible, Silent knowledge they cannot speak for the be forced to restrict his/her own expres hidden from the publtc behind govern· common interests of the American peo- sive means in fear of denied funding. If mental leg1slature. The public is no Pmtners pie in regards to art. A country that the Congress St.K:ceeds in its re-structur longer involved m the determination of shares such a multiplicity of cultural and ing of the NEA as planned, one more content. Rather than the artist experi ideological beliefs cannot place all artis- step will be taken towards the stifling of menting with the popularity of content East tic taste under one common umbrella. individual expression within our society. durmg an exhibit, the government elim We have more features In previous years the government's at- This new direction in NEA procedure inates this step breakmg in before the than vou'd expect. Ladies Resale tempts to disallow public exhibition of will not better represent the interests of artist ts able to test 1ts content to popu Fine Clothes on Consigntnent · unacceptable" art created an uproar the American people. Rather, it will lar response. All of this pre-thought We Pick Up both within and outside the artistic eliminate all marginal interests focusing placed into artistic expression creates a 372 So. Indian H111 Bhd. community. This left the government entirely on the more conservative ap more conservative approach where the officlals searching for an alternative proach to artistic expression. We are not artist will tnev1tably choose •safe" sub Claremont • 024--0696 method in regulating the content of art a homogeneous society in wh1ch one Ject matter to guarantee funding What 140 N. Indian HiiiSivd., Claremont, CA 91711 (in 1'tpper Tff!f Square) Continued on Next Page (714) 621 -2679 FAX (714) 621-1482 Open Tues tn~h Sat at 11 a.m. 36 • The Other Side: April 23, 1991 Vo 1 c E THE fLEXIBLE HOWARD Pitzer at Play, Pitzer at Unrest JOHNSON by Jennifer Hoffman it made it very difficult to leave school ever done. Pitzer pndes 1tself on beang ~ f you were in the vicinity of Mead such "a close-knit commumty" where dorm the weekend of 4/12 or even in May with no policy and to return in September to a strict policy. Therefore •everyone IS encouraged to speak" and the weekend prior 4/5 you will most Hote CLAREMONT, CA. I from the start the situation was hazy act, BUT only when 1t's in accordance likely relate to the unrest that oozed out with the administration. of the concrete corridors. An unsettling and students were uninformed. I am not saying ignorance should be It seems when students do come to air of animosity descended upon Stu· used as an excuse. There are numerous the administration with concerf1S the ad dents who felt they were unjustly both ways of becoming aware of new poli ministration claims "to understand" and ered by RA's, campus secunty and even cies, changes, etc. I am saying that maybe agree but the concern 1s usually Dean of Students, Jack ung. Just pushed aside. Commumcatton ap The incident, which initiated Pitzer Pitzer went from extreme liberalism (with regard to alcohol) to a sudden re pears to be simply a word they toss students to lash out against the adminis strictiveness, therefore it made the tran around at their convemence. It's lots of tration, occurred on Saturday, April 6th. sition difficult for most returmng stu talk and httle action What was originally intended to be a Pitzer, as an enuty, as gomg through small get-together escalated into a small dents. SPECIAL CAMPUS Once the maJOrity of students did be probably one of the toughest t1mes •t party and ulumately into a fairly "good come enlightened, the new policy was may ever have endured Our president size" one. Nothing was planned. The never consistently enforced, primarily of twelve years is leaving as IS the Dean whole evening was spontaneous. It be of Faculty. The Dean of Students, Dean RATES! came a good time. Friends satting by RA's. Naturally then students fell back into the old "non-policy" and re of Freshman and Dean of Housing are around the Mead quad, listening to mu acted aversely when they were arbitrari all relatively new and are therefore not FOR PARENTS, STUDENTS, FACULTV AND ALUMNI sic, talking and yes, drinking. completely in touch with what is re Since the new alcohol policy was im ly approached by RA's condemning them for their "respective disregard for quired to make Pnzer run effectively plemented this year, beer has become a I'm not blammg them per se for the lat four-letter word. Parties can no longer the policy." All would attest that the job of the RA est uprisings, I'm just say1ng that all be spontaneous because all kegs must be $38 PER NIGHT- SINGLE KING 1S by far not an easy one One has to be these changes don't g1ve P1tzer a sohd registered a week in advance. a pan-time student and a pan-time po base on which to operate. SIZE OR TWO DOUBLES! The incidents though of the past Just as it might be difficult for Sentors weeks are just that, the past. Therefore I lice person. The RA's are expected to be both friend and enforcer Most students to take orders from RA's who are under see no need to dissect them, 1nstead I'd have a hard time takang orders from classpeople, it is difficult as well to hsten **$1 0 PER NIGHT (30 DAYS MINIMUM) - FOR rather discuss why they happened and to Dorm Heads or admimstrators place look at possible remedaes to prevent peers, especially when the RA is a STUDENT BODY WITH STUDENT I.D. sophomore who's 18 or 19 placing de demands on us, espectally when we·ve them in the future. been here longer than they have It The alcohol policy and d1scussions mands on a 21 year-old. Granted a sophomore might be just as would make sense for them to hsten to thereof have been exhausted to death, those of us who have been here four yet tn this situation I feel it must once capable as a senior wath regard to the re sponsibilities of a RA but what I don't years, because we have a clear v1sion of •Free Shuttle Service to •Ontario again be addressed I think that if I where Pitzer came from and where 1t's asked the typica I Pitzer student to de think the administration keeps in mind in choosing RA's is experience. Especial headmg, rather than to discard our 1deas •Satellite T.V. scnbe the alcohol policy, the student simply because the admtnastrallon couldn't do it, at least not completely. ly since P1tzer has 1ncurred some major •Air Conditioning poltcy changes in the last four years. deems itself as be1ng more quat.fied Perhaps it's simply the notion of igno The benefll of havtng upperclasspeople As a pred1cuon, the next several years •Convenient Dining rance on the students' pan or maybe JUSt are going to be equally rough due to a lack of clear commumcation by the as RA's is that they would be aware of political, social, econom1c, etc. changes upcommg changes I conunue to advo Restaurants Right Next Door administration. Unfortunately though cate communicauon on the pan of stu that's a moot argument altogether. that have affected students •Close to the Colleges and the Vi llage I envision the problems at Pitzer as a dents and the administrauon however, However, a very vahd argument that the core oi t:ommun1cauon as response, I'm certain most Juniors and Semors triangle. There are two or three main concerns at the top and all others are a and at th1s pomt neither s1de IS respond would concur would be that our fistr mg positively to one anothers' concerns, Affordable, Spacious, Comfortable and second years, 1988- 1989, there es direct result or effect thereof. However, tf forced to choose a primary problem feelings or ideas senually was no alcohol policy. Suppos Perhaps the t1me for a new pres1dent edly one dad ex1st but it was never stnct mdicative of Pitzer, it would be lack of communication, in every sense of the is due someone to come m take hold Indian Hill & 10 Freeway (714) 626-2431 ly enforced. As a Senior reOccting back and make Patzer strive to reach its full to freshman year, the only guideline word. Pttzer claims, accordmg to Dean 721 S. Indian Hill Blvd. Call for Details ung to be "a fulfilling place to live-and potential. The premise behmd Pitzer as that was ever maintained was that all al team, and to exerc1se your freedom in it a umque commumty should sull be rel cohol beverages must be 1n a cup an IShed. We Just need someone to act on pubhc places on campus This lack of with care and thoughtfulness for every- one" (from the 1990-91 Student Hand these prem1ses rather than JUSt to talk comm1tment to the policy could be about them blamed on the admmistration, the RA's book . Students have and will express or non-compliant students Regardless the1r opmions, bel1efs, etc but little is 38 • The Other Side: April23, 1991